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ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN
By: Gavriel Savit
Knopf
January 2016
On Sale: January 1, 2016
Featuring: Anna
232 pages
ISBN: 0553513346
EAN: 9780553513349
Kindle: B00X2F7O36
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Young Adult | Young Adult Suspense | 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. KrakΓ³w, 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. Sheβs 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 Annaβs fatherβshe knows that very wellβbut she also knows that, like her father, heβs 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 Savitβs stunning debut reveals lifeβs hardest lessons while celebrating its miraculous possibilities.
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