The Resource The invention of Ana : a novel, Mikkel Rosengaard ; translated by Caroline Waight
The invention of Ana : a novel, Mikkel Rosengaard ; translated by Caroline Waight
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- Summary
- "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 humour, 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 and funny, with an air of mystery and melancholia, Ana is a performance artist, a mathematician, and a self-proclaimed time traveller. She is also bad luck, she confesses; she is from a cursed Romanian lineage. Before long, the intern finds himself seduced by Ana'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 endeavour. 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 his own 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 debut novel, Mikkel Rosengaard illuminates the profound power of stories to alter the world around us - -and the lives of the ones we love"--
- Language
-
- eng
- dan
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 296 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062679079
- Label
- The invention of Ana : a novel
- Title
- The invention of Ana
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Mikkel Rosengaard ; translated by Caroline Waight
- Subject
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- trueLiterary fiction
- trueTranslations -- Danish to English
- trueMen -- Denmark
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction
- trueNew York City
- City and town life -- Fiction
- truePerformance artists
- trueDenmark
- trueObsession
- trueStrangers
- Danish fiction -- Translations into English
- trueTime
- Performance artists -- Fiction
- trueRomania
- trueWomen -- Romania
- Interns -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- trueBiography
- trueStorytelling
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Scandinavian fiction -- Denmark
- trueCurses
- Friendship -- Fiction
- trueAuthors
- Language
-
- eng
- dan
- eng
- Summary
- "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 humour, 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 and funny, with an air of mystery and melancholia, Ana is a performance artist, a mathematician, and a self-proclaimed time traveller. She is also bad luck, she confesses; she is from a cursed Romanian lineage. Before long, the intern finds himself seduced by Ana'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 endeavour. 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 his own 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 debut novel, Mikkel Rosengaard illuminates the profound power of stories to alter the world around us - -and the lives of the ones we love"--
- Summary
- Meeting a beautiful performance artist who claims she is from a cursed Romanian family, an aspiring young writer is entranced by the woman's history-laden stories about her relatives and her experimentation with altering her perception of time by immersing herself in darkness for one month
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10619967
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1987-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rosengaard, Mikkel
- Dewey number
- 839.8138
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Danish
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Waight, Caroline
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Interns
- Performance artists
- Friendship
- Voyages and travels
- City and town life
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The invention of Ana : a novel, Mikkel Rosengaard ; translated by Caroline Waight
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060756414
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 296 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062679079
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2017036753
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)987628231
- Label
- The invention of Ana : a novel, Mikkel Rosengaard ; translated by Caroline Waight
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060756414
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 296 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062679079
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2017036753
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)987628231
Subject
- trueAuthors
- Bildungsromans
- trueBiography
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- City and town life -- Fiction
- trueCurses
- Danish fiction -- Translations into English
- trueDenmark
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Interns -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMen -- Denmark
- trueNew York City
- trueObsession
- truePerformance artists
- Performance artists -- Fiction
- trueRomania
- Scandinavian fiction -- Denmark
- trueStorytelling
- trueStrangers
- trueTime
- trueTranslations -- Danish to English
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction
- trueWomen -- Romania
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