The World According to Anna by Jostein Gaarder - ISBN: 9781780229188
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Time-bending visions reveal a desolate future. Can Anna change it?

The World According to Anna

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    10 January 2017

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Summary

When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong; 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, roaming through wasteland with a band of 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 v…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781780229188
ISBN-10:1780229186
Author:Jostein Gaarder, Donald Bartlett
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:10 January 2017
Weight:200g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 20mm
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About The Author

Jostein Gaarder

Jostein Gaarder was born in Oslo in 1952. Sophie’s World, the first of his books to be published in English, has been translated into sixty languages and has sold over forty million copies. He is the author of many other bestselling, beloved novels and children’s books, including The Orange Girl, The Christmas Mystery and The Ringmaster’s Daughter. He lives in Oslo with his family.

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