| Product Summary | | Format: Multimedia Software | | ISBN: 9781433247507 | | Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks | | Publish Date: 5/1/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 207947503 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.5H x 5.5L x 0.75T |
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| | | Set within the monumental events of history, City of Thieves is an intimate coming-of-age tale with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.
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Two Russians, a teenage looter, and an army deserter, face death penalties for their crimes during the brutal siege of Leningrad by the Nazis during World War II. A Russian Colonel offers them a reprieve on one condition: they must find a dozen eggs for his daughter's wedding cake--a difficult, perhaps deadly task in the chaos of the war. The two men embark on their unlikely quest into the nearby farmlands, and find themselves plotting to murder the local Nazi commander. This thrilling and delightfully unexpected tale is based in part on the wartime stories of author David Benioff's grandfather.
| Praise| "Benioff blends tense adventure, a bittersweet coming-of-age, and an oddly touching buddy narrative to craft a smart crowd-pleaser....Hard to put down." (starred review) 02/25/2008 "[David Benioff] shifts tone with perfect control--no recent novel I've read travels so quickly and surely between registers, from humor to devastation." 07/06/2008 |
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