β Scribed by Gavriel Savit
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New York Times Bestseller
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"Exquisite." --_The Wall Street Journal
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"This is masterly storytelling." --The New York Times Book Review
A stunning, beautiful, and ambitious debut novel set in Poland during the Second World War perfect for readers of All the Light We Cannot See and The Book Thief.**
Krakow, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. Anna Εania 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 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 Anna's father--she knows that very well--but she also knows that, like her...
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