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The World According to Anna
- Author
- Jostein Gaarder
- Narrator
- Penelope Rawlins
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 12 November 2015
- Run Time
- 3 hours 51 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate world of 2082. She sees her great-granddaughter, Nova, in a wasteland peopled by ragged survivors, after animals and plants have died out.
The more Anna sees, the more she realises she must act to prevent the future in her visions becoming real. But can she act quickly enough?
Haunting, gripping and magical, The World According to Anna is a fable for our time.
Read by Penelope Rawlins
(p) 2015 Orion Publishing Group
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Details
- Author
- Jostein Gaarder
- Narrator
- Penelope Rawlins
- Duration
- 3 hours 51 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 November 2015
- ISBN
- 9781409160533
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: environmental issues / the natural world
Synopsis
When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong with Anna; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing. Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate world of 2082. She sees her great-granddaughter, Nova, in a wasteland peopled by ragged survivors, after animals and plants have died out. The more Anna sees, the more she realises she must act to prevent the future in her visions becoming real. But can she act quickly enough? Haunting, gripping and magical, The World According to Anna is a fable for our time.Read by Penelope Rawlins(p) 2015 Orion Publishing Group
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