"Chilling yet tender." --
People Magazine "Savit's economical prose beautifully captures a child's loss of innocence and the spiritual challenges that emerge when a safe world suddenly becomes threatening." --
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"The third-person narrative--lyrical, fluid, with a pervasive shadow of menace--lends a folkloric feel to a graceful story steeped in history, magic, myth, and archetype; comparisons to
The Book Thief are apt." --
The Horn Book, Starred Review
"Savit's novel, with its wise, philosophical narrator, has the classic feel and elegant, precise language of a book that's been around forever." --
Shelf Awareness, Starred Review
"[A] quiet exploration of love and its limits." --
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Starred Review
"Artful, original, insightful." --
Kirkus Reviews "A moving, thought-provoking story about coming-of-age in the midst of trauma." --
Booklist
"The Book Thief. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Any book compared to both of these is in my eyes sure to have an exciting plot, be a fantastic eye opener, and have loveable characters.
Anna and the Swallow Man did not disappoint. Just go and read it--it is impossible not to love." --
The Guardian
"The story is powerful enough to resonate with all ages....Savit's novel, though a quick read, is a powerful one. And just like the child is follows, it has a deeper poignancy masked by its seemingly simple surface."
--Mashable "Written like a love song for language -- heartbreaking and entrancing and filled with characters whose survival is intimately, sometimes tragically, tied to their love of words."
--Bustle
From the Hardcover edition.