{"product_id":"happening","title":"Happening","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003e Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43667875528901,"sku":"","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Happening.jpg?v=1717553927","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/happening","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}