Benioff, David.

City of thieves : a novel / David Benioff. - New York : Viking, 2008. - 258 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

Adult Follett Library Resources

Green Mountain Book Award 2010-11

9780670018703 0670018708

2007042784


Grandparent and child--Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
Russians--United States--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Grandparent-grandchild relationship--Fiction.
Elderly--Psychology--Fiction.
Russians--United States--Fiction.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.


Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Siege, 1941-1944.--Fiction.
Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.

PS3552.E54425 / C58 2008

813/.54 [Fic]