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City of Thieves (Paperback)

City of Thieves (Paperback)


by Benioff, David
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    Two Russians, a teenage looter, and an army deserter, face death penalties for their crimes during the brutal siege of Leningrad by the Nazis during World War II. A Russian Colonel offers them a reprieve on one condition: they must find a dozen eggs f...
 
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Two Russians, a teenage looter, and an army deserter, face death penalties for their crimes during the brutal siege of Leningrad by the Nazis during World War II. A Russian Colonel offers them a reprieve on one condition: they must find a dozen eggs for his daughter`s wedding cake--a difficult, perhaps deadly task in the chaos of the war. The two men embark on their unlikely quest into the nearby farmlands, and find themselves plotting to murder the local Nazi commander. This thrilling and delightfully unexpected tale is based in part on the wartime stories of author David Benioff`s grandfather.

Author:
Benioff, David
ISBN:
9780452295292
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
258
Publish Date:
03/31/2009
Publisher:
Plume

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  • Starred ReviewAuthor and screenwriter Benioff follows up The 25th Hour with this hard-to-put-down novel based on his grandfather's stories about surviving WWII in Russia. Having elected to stay in Leningrad during the siege, 17-year-old Lev Beniov is caught looting a German paratrooper's corpse. The penalty for this infraction (and many others) is execution. But when Colonel Grechko confronts Lev and Kolya, a Russian army deserter also facing execution, he spares them on the condition that they acquire a dozen eggs for the colonel's daughter's wedding cake. Their mission exposes them to the most ghoulish acts of the starved populace and takes them behind enemy lines to the Russian countryside. There, Lev and Kolya take on an even more daring objective: to kill the commander of the local occupying German forces. A wry and sympathetic observer of the devastation around him, Lev is an engaging and self-deprecating narrator who finds unexpected reserves of courage at the crucial moment and forms an unlikely friendship with Kolya, a flamboyant ladies' man who is coolly reckless in the face of danger. Benioff blends tense adventure, a bittersweet coming-of-age and an oddly touching buddy narrative to craft a smart crowd-pleaser. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
 
 
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