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Title Statement | Anna / Niccolò Ammaniti. |
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Author | Ammaniti, Niccolò, 1966- |
Publication | Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd,[2017]©2015 |
Extent of Item | 261 pages ; |
ISBN | 1782118349 (pbk.) 9781782118343 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3232147 |
Languages | Translated from the Italian. |
Summary | It is some years since a virus killed all the adults. Now Sicily lies in ruins while the disease lies in wait, poised to claim the children as they reach adolescence. Brave, stubborn thirteen-year-old Anna looks after her brother Astor in the cottage where their mother's skeleton rests, lovingly decorated, in a locked bedroom. She tells him fearsome stories about monsters, hoping to keep him safe at home while she forages among the real hazards. Wild dogs. Gangs of savage, blue-painted kids. But then Astor starts to question Anna's version of the world, just as the blue kids are turning their attention to the cottage-and suddenly, everything will change. |
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By Topic | Teenage girls--Fiction |
Brothers and sisters--Fiction | |
Virus diseases--Fiction | |
Survival--Fiction | |
By Location | Sicily (Italy)--Fiction |
By Genre | Dystopias |