Letter to a Child Never Born

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]

Letter to a Child Never Born

First US edition
Author	Oriana Fallaci
Original title	Lettera a un bambino mai nato
Translator	John Shepley
Language	Italian
Publisher	Rizzoli (Italy) Simon and Schuster (US) Arlington Books (UK)
Publication date	1975 (Italian)
Publication place	Italy
Published in English	1976 (English)
Media type	Print (Book)
Pages	114
ISBN	0-671-22374-7
OCLC	2493634
Dewey Decimal	858/.9/1407
LC Class	PZ4.F192 Le PQ4866.A4

The book sold four million copies worldwide.