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Anna and the Swallow Man audiobook

  • By: Gavriel Savit
  • Narrator: Allan Corduner
  • Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
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Anna and the Swallow Man Audiobook Summary

Winner of the 2017 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production
New York Times Bestseller
A Booklist Editors’ Choice Audio

An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year
A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
Winner of the Indies Choice Book Award                             
Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award

“Exquisite.” —The Wall Street Journal

“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.
 
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 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 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.

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. 
 
Destined to become a classic, Gavriel Savit’s stunning debut reveals life’s hardest lessons while celebrating its miraculous possibilities.

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Anna and the Swallow Man Audiobook Narrator

Allan Corduner is the narrator of Anna and the Swallow Man audiobook that was written by Gavriel Savit

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Gavriel Savit is the author of Anna and the Swallow Man

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Anna and the Swallow Man Full Details

Narrator Allan Corduner
Length 6 hours 30 minutes
Author Gavriel Savit
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 30, 2024
ISBN 9781101891827

Additional info

The publisher of the Anna and the Swallow Man is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Listening Library. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781101891827.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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