City of Thieves

English

ISBN: 0452295297

EAN: 9780452295292

Category: Fiction / Coming of Age/Fiction / Family Life/Fiction / Historical/Fiction / War & Military/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 03/31/2009

Age Range: 18-null

Synopsis: Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves. Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club. Simply enter the coupon code BENIOFFCITY at checkout. This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies to only one downloadable audio per purchase. 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 daughters 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.

Awards: Alex Awards – null 

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City of Thieves

Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.6 inches

Width: 5.42 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 7.87 oz

Pages: 272