A beautifully haunting book (Brigitte) Krakow, 1939. Anna is still a child when the Germans take her father, a Jewish intellectual. She is left all alone in a world full of hostility. Then Anna meets the Swallow Man, who is mysterious, charismatic, and wise. He can speak an astonishing number of languages, lures a swallow for her with bird calls - and he is Anna's only hope. She joins him, learning from him how to hide. How to escape death. But in a world on the brink, everything can become dangerous. Even the Swallow Man.