The World According to Anna
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By Jostein Gaarder, Donald Bartlett (Translator), and and, Penelope Rawlins
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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
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This book is about a girl who believes that she is a different person in her dreams. A different Anna, in a different world, a world with a problem that she must do something about.
We liked the detailed descriptions in the book. They fed our imagination and we liked the precision of the detail. However, we found it confusing sometimes, we were not always certain which Anna was speaking to us.
The book made us think about what the world was according to us. We considered what our job is in the world, if we do not want to face the same unimaginable future as Anna.
We felt that this was a mysterious and adventurous book, with some surprises. We loved the messages about global warming and the state of the planet.
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