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Ana’s Gift is an incredibly intense and heartfelt novel that makes us appreciate the delicacy of life’s small moments. Ana’s Gift has become a true critical and commercial success abroad, with over half a million copies sold.

It has been translated into several languages and published in France, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, and Denmark.

Cecilia Samartin was the author with the most novels on Norway’s TOP 20 list in 2012.

Dear reader: While these lines are usually meant to introduce a novel, in this case, we believe there are no words sufficient to explain the emotions and feelings this work will convey. Furthermore, revealing its content in full would leave many loose ends, as this story has the power to touch people’s hearts for very different reasons. However, if you decide to dive into its pages, you should know that this is the story—one that could very well have been real—of Ana, a girl who survived the war and whose wounded heart kept her away from the world for a long time. A girl who had the chance to belong to one of California’s wealthiest families and to be part of their lives forever.

“Written with evocative grace and poetic beauty, Ana’s Gift captured my heart from the very first page and didn’t let go until the end. A story of lost and found places where Cecilia Samartin delves into the deepest corners of the human soul.”
— Le Monde

“Ana’s Gift is a book for taking care of yourself.”
Karen White, author of The Memory of Water