Anna and the Swallow Man
by:
Gavriel Savit (author)
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...
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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 u
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00X2F7O36
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
I dunno, this is just not my kind of book. I read it and gave up on it a few months ago then I decided to do it on audio and I did finish it I just don't like the storyline. I found the plot very strange and am still not sure what the point of the book is. Its one of those books that may be well w...
This is the loveliest story about the most unlovely subject. Why is this book designated for grades seven and up? The message is more profound than what is perceived initially on its surface. This is a tale about evil that is witnessed through the eyes of a child and is far more accurately seen in t...
***This review has also been posted on The Social Potato I don’t read a lot of historical fiction but I absolutely adore middle grade novels so when I heard about Anna and the Swallow Man, I knew I was going to have a lot of feels and would probably need a lot of tissues. The book; however, turned o...
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