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Combining the infectious narration of Nick Hornby's Funny Lady, 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, filled with vibrant brio and irresistible humor, that chronicles a young man's camaraderie with a most peculiar artist. Over a rooftop in Brooklyn over a spring night, a young intern and would-be writer, newly came from Copenhagen, complies with the intriguing Ana Ivan. Clever and funny, with an air of puzzle and melancholia, Ana is a performance artist, a mathematician, and a self-proclaimed time tourist. 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 reports - of her unlucky countrymen; of her parents' love during the most severe many years of Nicolae Ceaucescu's dictatorship; of any daylight personal savings switchover removed horribly incorrect. Ana also introduces him to her latest artistic endeavor. Following the astronomical as opposed to the Gregorian calendar, she is trying to improve her sense of energy - an test that will lead her to live in complete darkness for just one month. Descending in to the blackness with Ana, the intern slowly manages to lose touch with his own living, entangling himself in the lives of Ana, her starry-eyed mom, Maria, and her raging math-prodigy daddy, Ciprian. Peeling back again the layers of her former, he eventually discovers the perverse tragedy that has haunted Ana's family for many years and molded her journey from the roadways of Bucharest to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and lastly to NEW YORK. The Invention of Ana blurs the lines between narrative and ram, perception and reality, identity and authenticity. In his stunning debut book, Mikkel Rosengaard illuminates the serious power of reports to alter the earth all around us - and the lives of the methods we love.
