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Anna and the Swallow Man / Gavriel Savit.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : The Bodley Head, 2016.Description: 240 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781782300533 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.92 23
Summary: Kraków, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. But 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 judgment, make a friend. But in a world gone mad, everything can prove dangerous.
List(s) this item appears in: War Stories | Historical Fiction
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F SAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available AR BL 7.1 R15161M0499
Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F SAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available r14951y0499
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Kraków, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. But 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 judgment, make a friend. But in a world gone mad, everything can prove dangerous.

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