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The Invention of Ana: A Novel Audiobook
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Combining the infectious narration of Nick Hornby’s Funny Girl, the philosophical lyricism of Roberto Bolaño’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 and funny, 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 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 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 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.
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“With romance and a stroke of sci-fi, Rosengaard’s novel is a swift and memorable meditation on how storytellers struggle to separate the tangible from the contrived.”
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“Impossible not to be swept away by Ana’s mysterious journey.”
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“Charts the emotional distance between Bucharest under Ceausescu’s despotic rule and present-day hipster Brooklyn, resulting in a striking, auspicious debut.”
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“This strange story about strange stories, told with intelligence and humor, lingers in the mind like a dream.”
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“A brilliantly inventive story of art, love, and loss.”
— Morten Høi Jensen, author of A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen -
“Surprising, suspenseful, and deeply affecting…written in prose as elegant and precise as a mathematical proof…A beautiful and enlarging read.”
— Alena Graedon, author of The Word Exchange
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About Mikkel Rosengaard
Mikkel Rosengaard is a writer from Elsinore, Denmark. He currently lives in New York City, writing mostly about contemporary art. His stories have appeared in The Architectural Review, PBS’s ART21, Weekendavisen, and other publications. Rosengaard has also worked writing jobs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the 92nd Street Y.
About Will Damron
Will Damron has won several Earphones Awards and been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He has had acting roles off-Broadway and on stage and screen throughout the country.