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Letter to a Child Never Born

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Letter to a Child Never Born
First US edition
AuthorOriana Fallaci
Original titleLettera a un bambino mai nato
TranslatorJohn Shepley
LanguageItalian
PublisherRizzoli (Italy)
Simon and Schuster (US)
Arlington Books (UK)
Publication date
1975 (Italian)
Publication placeItaly
Published in English
1976 (English)
Media typePrint (Book)
Pages114
ISBN0-671-22374-7
OCLC2493634
858/.9/1407
LC ClassPZ4.F192 Le PQ4866.A4

Letter to a Child Never Born (Italian: Lettera a un bambino mai nato, 1975) is a novel by Italian author and journalist Oriana Fallaci. It is written as a letter by a young professional woman (presumably Fallaci herself) to the fetus she carries in utero; it details the woman's struggle to choose between a career she loves and an unexpected pregnancy, explaining how life works with examples of her childhood, and warning him/her about the unfairness of the world. The English translation was first published in 1976.[1]

The book sold four million copies worldwide.

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