{"product_id":"happening-9781609809485","title":"Happening","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHappening\u003c\/i\u003e recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed -- and world ominously narrowed -- in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHappening\u003c\/i\u003e, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWinner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival\u003cbr\u003eOfficial Selection of the Sundance Film Festival\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in 1940, ANNIE ERNAUX grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught high school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the \u003ci\u003eCentre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance\u003c\/i\u003e. Her books, in particular \u003ci\u003eA Man's Place\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Woman's Story\u003c\/i\u003e, have become contemporary classics in France. Ernaux won the prestigious \u003ci\u003ePrix Renaudot\u003c\/i\u003e for \u003ci\u003eA Man's Place\u003c\/i\u003ewhen it was first published in French in 1984, and the English edition became a New York Times Notable Book. Other New York Times Notable Books include \u003ci\u003eSimple Passion \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Woman's Story, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was also a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize Finalist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eErnaux's most recent work, \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e, has received the Françoise-Mauriac Prize of the French Academy, the Marguerite Duras Prize, the Strega European Prize, the French Language Prize, and the Télégramme Readers Prize. The English edition, translated by Alison L. Strayer, won the 31st Annual French-American Translation Prize for non-fiction and is shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. Her new book, \u003ci\u003ePortrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, \u003c\/i\u003ewill be out from Seven Stories in 2020.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50605891518738,"sku":"9781609809485","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c8aeaaad-6f9d-4d32-9a7d-e5a16b684633.jpg?v=1732284690","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/happening-9781609809485","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}