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Letter to a Child Never Born

Name: Letter to a Child Never Born
Author: Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci Original title Lettera a un bambino mai nato (Italian, 1975)

Letter to a Child Never Born is a novel by Italian author and journalist Oriana Fallaci. It is written as a letter by a young professional woman 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.The book sold four million copies worldwide.

“To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.”

Oriana Fallaci book Letter to a Child Never Born

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