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The World According to Anna by Jostein Gaarder
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The World According to Anna

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Translator Donald Bartlett
Length 3 hours 50 minutes
Language English
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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

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 60 languages and has sold over 40 million copies.
He is the author of many other bestselling, beloved novels and children's books.
He lives in Oslo with his family.

As an award winning audiobook narrator, Penelope has voiced over 200 audiobooks and was nominated by Audible for Narrator of the Year.
Favourite titles include: Gorilla's in the Mist, The Turn of the Screw, Homeland: Carrie's Run, Homeland:Saul's Game (based on the CBS television series), The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvin Welsh, The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes, Unseen by Karin Slaughter, Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson, Hattie B Magical Vet children's series, The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory and The After Wife by Cass Hunter.

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