Anna and the Swallow Man
- Author Gavriel Savit
- Narrator Allan Corduner
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Run Time 6 hours and 31 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage social issues: War and conflict issues.
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What to expect
Anna and the Swallow Man is a stunning, literary, and wholly original debut novel that tells a new WW2 story.
Kraków, 1939, is no place to grow up. There are a million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. And Anna Lania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father and suddenly, she’s alone.
Then she meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall. And like Anna's missing 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.
Over the course of their travels together, Anna and the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even, despite their better judgement, make a friend. But in a world gone mad, everything can prove dangerous . . .
Critics Review
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An astonishingly accomplished debut about war, survival and humanity . . . this is very much in the territory of The Book Thief and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas with all the potential that such a comparison suggests
The Bookseller - One to Watch -
A beautifully haunting and thought-provoking story of friendship that lingers long after the last page
Ruta Sepetys -
Like the characters in his debut novel, author Gavriel Savit has harnessed the power of language. He’s a talented wordsmith, wielding words and sentences with a precision that allows them to wriggle deep into this reader’s heart, leaving me both enchanted and brokenhearted.
Publishers Weekly -
One of those all ages and no age stories . . . told by a genuine wordsmith . . . And it’s a story of generosity in the worst of times. Of friendship and loyalty and yes, of love despite all the horror. We won’t forget how it felt to read it. Ever.
The Bookbag -
A beautiful and stunning read . . . It creeps slowly into your heart just like Morris Gleitzman’s Once, and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas did.
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