City of thieves
About this book
From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.
During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible.
By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.
Subjects
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- domestic fiction
- elderly
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, family life
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- grandparent and child
- grandparent-grandchild relationship
- grandparents, fiction
- histoire
- historical fiction
- history
- large type books
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-04-19
- psychology
- reminiscing in old age
- romans, nouvelles
- russians
- saint petersburg (russia), fiction
- siege of saint petersburg (russia : 1941-1944) fast (ocolc)fst01354921
- social conditions
- survival
- survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks
- survivalism
- survivalisme
- war fiction
- world war, 1939-1945, fiction