Anna

It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running out. Fires raged across the country. Now Anna cares for her brother alone in a house hidden in the woods, keeping him safe from 'the Outside'. But, when the time comes, Anna knows they must leave their world and find another. By turns luminous and tender, gripping and horrifying, Anna is a haunting parable of love and loneliness; of the stories we tell to sustain us, and the lengths we will go to in order to stay alive.

Report

Ammaniti sets a new standard in post-apocalyptic fiction . . . This story of children running wild in Sicily brilliantly manipulates the usual models even as it transcends their limits . . . In the midst of wonderfully detailed disorder, one girl named Anna struggles to survive, fighting off feral dogs and crazed children and enduring one of recent literature's most nightmarish visions of hell on earth as she tries to feed and protect her young brother, Astor John Burnside Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Niccolo Ammaniti, Niccolò Ammaniti, Ammaniti Niccolo
• Assisted by: Anonymous (Translation)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781782118367
• ISBN: 978-1-78211-836-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Fiction in translation, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary