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Plume
April 2009
On Sale: March 31, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 0452295297
EAN: 9780452295292
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Literature and Fiction Literary | Historical
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.
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