{"product_id":"the-invention-of-ana-a-novel-isbn-9780062679086","title":"The Invention of Ana: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Paperback Row Editor's Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining the infectious narration of Nick Hornby’s \u003cem\u003eFunny Girl\u003c\/em\u003e, the philosophical lyricism of Roberto Bolaño’s \u003cem\u003eThe Savage Detectives\u003c\/em\u003e, and the mesmerizing power of Anna North’s \u003cem\u003eThe Life and Death of Sophie Stark\u003c\/em\u003e, a breathtaking debut, brimming with youthful brio and irresistible humor, that chronicles a young man’s friendship with a most peculiar artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescending 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Invention of Ana\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eOn a rooftop in Brooklyn, a young intern meets the intriguing artist and mathematician Ana Ivan. Ardent and funny, with an air of mystery and melancholia, Ana is living like a prime number: fierce and unbroken and divisible only by herself. Before long, the intern is seduced by Ana’s enthralling stories—of her parents’ romance under an oppressive dictatorship; of a Daylight Savings transition gone horribly wrong—and finds himself caught in a bizarre artistic endeavor that will alter the arc of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Invention of Ana\u003c\/em\u003e blurs the lines between imagination and reality, narrative and memory. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Mikkel Rosengaard writes fluently . . . often with a brush of humor in a tale that contains several narrative threads, multiple fates, and many locations. . . . [He] simply has an outstanding flair for telling stories.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerlingske Tidende, starred review (Denmark)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Impressive storytelling. . . . A striking debut filled with amusing incidents and heartfelt emotions.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEkstra Bladet, starred review (Denmark)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] stirring debut.... Rosengaard’s novel is a swift and memorable meditation on how storytellers struggle to separate the tangible from the contrived.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This strange story about strange stories, told with intelligence and humor, lingers in the mind like a dream.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Surprising, suspenseful, and deeply affecting, written in prose as elegant and precise as a mathematical proof. 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