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Happening
Annie Ernaux
Synopsis
Annie Ernaux returns to the unwanted pregnancy she experienced as a student in 1963, when abortion was illegal in France. Working through memories and contemporary notes, she examines the isolation, class pressures and physical danger that shaped the experience and its later telling.
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