A New York Times Paperback Row Editors ChoiceCombining the infectious narration of Nick Hornbys Funny Girl, the philosophical lyricism of Roberto Bolaos The Savage Detectives, and the mesmerizing power of Anna Norths The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, a breathtaking debut, brimming with youthful brio and irresistible humor, that chronicles a young mans friendship with a most peculiar artist.On a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night, a young intern and wouldbe 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 selfproclaimed time traveler. She is also bad luck, she confesses she is from a cursed Romanian lineage.Before long, the intern finds himself seduced by Anas enthralling storiesof her unlucky countrymen of her parents romance during the worst years of Nicolae Ceaucescus 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 timean 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 starryeyed mother Maria, and her raging mathprodigy father Ciprian. Peeling back the layers of her past, he eventually discovers the...
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A New York Times Paperback Row Editors ChoiceCombining the infectious narration of Nick Hornbys Funny Girl, the philosophical lyricism of Roberto Bolaos The Savage Detectives, and the mesmerizing power of Anna Norths The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, a breathtaking debut, brimming with youthful brio and irresistible humor, that chronicles a young mans friendship with a most peculiar artist.On a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night, a young intern and wouldbe 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 selfproclaimed time traveler. She is also bad luck, she confesses she is from a cursed Romanian lineage.Before long, the intern finds himself seduced by Anas enthralling storiesof her unlucky countrymen of her parents romance during the worst years of Nicolae Ceaucescus 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 timean 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 starryeyed mother Maria, and her raging mathprodigy father Ciprian. Peeling back the layers of her past, he eventually discovers the...
Binding: Paperback;336 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: FA; Weight: 437.97 g; Dimensions:
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