A Sunday in 1961: Twenty-year-old literature student Denise is waiting—for her body to complete the abortion initiated by a back-alley practitioner. After her confession, the bourgeois Marc has left Denise immediately. Now she reflects on her life so far: Torn between her modest upbringing and the classmates from the better schools to which her good grades had elevated her, Denise feels repulsed by both sides. Vulgar, angry, and full of rejection towards bourgeois conformity, Annie Ernaux invents a completely new and stirring literary form in her debut.

Unabridged reading with Lisa Hrdina. 4 CDs.