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Knopf
January 2016
On Sale: January 1, 2016
Featuring: Anna
232 pages
ISBN: 0553513346
EAN: 9780553513349
Kindle: B00X2F7O36
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Young Adult Suspense | Young Adult | Young Adult Historical
A stunning, literary, and wholly original debut novel set
in Poland during the Second World War perfect for readers of
The Book Thief. Kraków, 1939. A
million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This
is no place to grow up. Anna Łania is just seven years
old when the Germans take her father, a linguistics
professor, during their purge of intellectuals in Poland.
She’s alone. And then Anna meets the Swallow
Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall, a skilled
deceiver with more than a little magic up his sleeve. And
when the soldiers in the streets look at him, they see what
he wants them to see. The Swallow Man is not Anna’s
father—she knows that very well—but she also knows that,
like her father, he’s in danger of being taken, and like her
father, he has a gift for languages: Polish, Russian,
German, Yiddish, even Bird. When he summons a bright,
beautiful swallow down to his hand to stop her from crying,
Anna is entranced. She follows him into the wilderness.
Over the course of their travels together, Anna and
the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even,
despite their better judgment, make a friend. But in a world
gone mad, everything can prove dangerous. Even the Swallow
Man. Destined to become a classic,
Gavriel Savit’s stunning debut reveals life’s hardest
lessons while celebrating its miraculous possibilities.
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