Martı Yayınları published Gavriel Savit’s “Anna and the Swallow Man”
Martı Yayınları published Gavriel Savit’s “Anna and the Swallow Man” with a translation of Tuna Alemdar.
“Anna and the Swallow Man” is a stunning, literary and wholly original debut novel that tells a new WWII 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….
21 February 2020