Savit, Gavriel Anna and the Swallow Man, 230 pages. Alfred
A. Knopf, 2016. $17.99. Language: R (1 swear, 2 “f”); Mature Content: PG13;
Violence: PG;
Set in Krakow, in 1939, Anna is a young girl at the age of seven
when her father was called to a meeting for all of the professors at the
university. Her father dropped her off at a friend’s store where she had stayed
many times before when her father had meetings. Everything was the same except
this time her father never came to take her home. She meets a man who will not
tell her his name so she calls him the Swallow Man. He takes her and becomes
like a father only very unlike her real father who talked to her and played
with her. The Swallow Man takes her into the wilderness and they walk for many
years. He teaches her how to survive while all around them they are trying to
stay alive from the effects of war.
I was bored reading this book until page
167. Up until this point in the book they are just wandering around. I could
barely keep my eyes open every time I picked up the book to read it. The “f”
word is in it twice towards the end and there is a scene where she is asked to
remove her clothes and stand in various potions in front of a pharmacist in
order to get pills for the Swallow Man. The Swallow Man also kills someone. It
is not written in details how he did it. And then they came upon a dead man and
it was described with blood and made me feel yucky.
NO. Reviewer: Candice
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