The invention of Ana : a novel
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Waight, Caroline, translator.
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New York, NY : Custom House, 2018.
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Book
Edition
First edition.
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pages cm
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Uintah County Library - Fiction - Second Floor
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Published
New York, NY : Custom House, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Street Date
1802
Language
English

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"Combining the infectious narration of Nick Hornby's Funny Girl, the philosophical lyricism of Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives, and the mesmerizing power of Anna North's The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, a breathtaking debut, brimming with youthful brio and irresistible humor, that chronicles a young man's friendship with a most peculiar artist. On a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night, a young intern and would-be writer, newly arrived from Copenhagen, meets the intriguing Ana Ivan. Clever andfunny, with an air of mystery and melancholia, Ana is a performance artist, a mathematician, and a self-proclaimed time traveler. She is also bad luck, she confesses; she is from a cursed Romanian lineage. Before long, the intern finds himself seduced byAna's enthralling stories--of her unlucky countrymen; of her parents' romance during the worst years of Nicolae Ceaucescu's dictatorship; of a Daylight Savings switchover gone horribly wrong. Ana also introduces him to her latest artistic endeavor. Following the astronomical rather than the Gregorian calendar, she is trying to alter her sense of time--an experiment that will lead her to live in complete darkness for one month. Descending into the blackness with Ana, the intern slowly loses touch with hisown existence, entangling himself in the lives of Ana, her starry-eyed mother Maria, and her raging math-prodigy father Ciprian. Peeling back the layers of her past, he eventually discovers the perverse tragedy that has haunted Ana's family for decades and shaped her journey from the streets of Bucharest to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and finally to New York City. The Invention of Ana blurs the lines between narrative and memory, perception and reality, identity and authenticity. In his stunning debutnovel, Mikkel Rosengaard illuminates the profound power of stories to alter the world around us--and the lives of the ones we love"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Rosengaard, M., & Waight, C. (2018). The invention of Ana: a novel (First edition.). Custom House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rosengaard, Mikkel, 1987- and Caroline, Waight. 2018. The Invention of Ana: A Novel. Custom House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rosengaard, Mikkel, 1987- and Caroline, Waight. The Invention of Ana: A Novel Custom House, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Rosengaard, Mikkel, and Caroline Waight. The Invention of Ana: A Novel First edition., Custom House, 2018.

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