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Custom House
February 2018
On Sale: February 13, 2018
288 pages
ISBN: 0062679074
EAN: 9780062679079
Kindle: B071DSP3CX
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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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