Anna and the Swallow Man

Anna and the Swallow Man

<b><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller<br /> A <i>Publishers Weekly </i>Best Book of the Year <i><br /></i>A<i> Shelf Awareness </i>Best Book of the Year<br />A<i> Bulletin </i>Blue Ribbon Book<br /> Winner of the Indies Choice Book Award                              <br /> Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award<br /><br /> <br /> <b>"Exquisite." —<i>The Wall Street Journal<br /></i></b></b><br />"This is masterly storytelling." —<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /><br />A stunning, beautiful, and ambitious debut novel set in Poland during the Second World War perfect for readers of <i>All the Light We Cannot See </i>and <i>The Book Thief.</i></b><br />  <br /> 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. <br /><br /> 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. <br /><br /> 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. <br /><br /> 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. <br />  <br /> Destined to become a classic, Gavriel Savit’s stunning debut reveals life’s hardest lessons while celebrating its miraculous possibilities.