Letter to a Child Never Born

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Letter to a Child Never Born

Letter to a Child Never Born's cover
Author Oriana Fallaci
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.