City of thieves : a novel / David Benioff.
by Benioff, David.
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BookPublisher: New York : Plume, [2009], c2008Description: 258 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0452295297.Subject(s): Grandparent and child -- Fiction | Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction | Russians -- United States -- Fiction | Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944 -- Fiction | Survival -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 | [Fic] Awards: Alex Award, 2009Summary: Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad.
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Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad.
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