Anna

Niccolò Ammaniti

Aug 2017 · Bolinda · Narrated by Eva Alexander

About this audiobook

Summer has ended, but the heat will not let up. Ash has covered everything. Weeds and wheat grow around the cars abandoned in the road. Anna and Astor live in the house behind the fence, surviving in a world stripped of adults. The rooms are piled high with rubbish. Their mother's skeleton lies perfect on the bed. And every few days, Anna must head out beyond the fence for provisions and medicine. Each time she goes, she may never come back. A huge bestseller in Italy, Anna is a story about the survival of the human spirit after the worst has happened.

About the author

Niccolò Ammaniti is one of Italy's brightest literary stars. His fiction combines tense horror with the blackest comedy and displays a knowing intelligence. Ammaniti's allusions to 1970s film and B-movie schlock place him at the vanguard of Italy's so-called giovani cannibali - young cannibals - who draw variously on kung-fu videos, comics and pop music (Bryan "Ferrari" Ferry) to conjure a disaffected modern Italy.

Eva Alexander has had a variety of small parts in television dramas such as Waking The Dead, The Brief and Casualty, in addition to a range of theatre and radio work. She also starred in the Children's BBC programme The Mysti Show as Ella. She appeared in the 2009 ITV drama Whatever It Takes, and in 2010 she appeared once again on CBBC, this time as the character Gill in Hounded. She appeared in the 2010 film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as a waitress. Most recently, she was in an episode of the BBC series: Cuffs.