City of Thieves

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A rough-and-tumble tale that clenches humür, savagery, and ios squarely together on the same page." -The Washington Post During the Nazis' brutal siege of Leningrád, 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 Leningrád 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. "Benioff has produced a funny, sad, and thrilling növel." -Entertaínmerit Weekly "In imagining Lev's... Tovább

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A rough-and-tumble tale that clenches humür, savagery, and ios squarely together on the same page." -The Washington Post During the Nazis' brutal siege of Leningrád, 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 Leningrád 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. "Benioff has produced a funny, sad, and thrilling növel." -Entertaínmerit Weekly "In imagining Lev's war, Benioff has paid him the enormous compliment of presenting the savagery he endured in full force without losing his humanity or his fragile goodness." -San Francisco Chronícte Men's Journal No recent növel l've read travels so quickly and surely between registers from humor to devastation. . . . Benioff reminds us what a beautifully ambiguous world we live in." -The New York limes Book Revíew Vissza