Letter to a Child Never Born
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Author | Oriana Fallaci |
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Original title | Lettera a un bambino mai nato |
Translator | John Shepley |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Publication date | 1975 |
Published in English |
1976 |
Media type | Print (Book) |
Pages | 114 |
ISBN | ISBN 0671223747 |
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 dialogue between a young professional woman and the fetus she carries in utero; it details the woman's struggle to choose between a career she loves and an unexpected pregnancy. The English translation was first published in 1976.
The book sold four million copies worldwide. As of January 2007, it is out of print.