City of Thieves

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"A rough-and-tumble tale that clenches humor, savagery, and pathos squaraly together on the SaíTIE paga. -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 Koiya 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 suppiies and suffering unbeiievable 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 ofThieves 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. ¦PVHI^^^H "Benioff has produced a funny, sad, Wr and thrilling növel." -Entertainment Weekly... Tovább

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"A rough-and-tumble tale that clenches humor, savagery, and pathos squaraly together on the SaíTIE paga. -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 Koiya 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 suppiies and suffering unbeiievable 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 ofThieves 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. ¦PVHI^^^H "Benioff has produced a funny, sad, Wr and thrilling növel." -Entertainment Weekly b-.fidtfltf^lE "In imagining Lev's war, Benioff has paid him the enormous compliment of presenting the ^^^^ft^H^V^H savagery he endured in full force without losing ^^^ IS his humanity or his fragile goodness." T^l -San Francisco Chronicle "Flat-out great." -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 Times Book Review "This spellbinding story perfectly blends tragedy and comedy." « -USA Today Vissza