City of thieves : a novel / David Benioff.
By: Benioff, David.
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BookPublisher: New York : Viking, 2008Description: 258 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780670018703; 0670018708.Subject(s): Grandparent and child -- Fiction | Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction | Russians -- United States -- Fiction | Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944. -- Fiction | Survival -- Fiction | Grandparent-grandchild relationship -- Fiction | Elderly -- Psychology -- Fiction | Russians -- United States -- Fiction | Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Fiction | Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction | Domestic fictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 | [Fic] Awards: Green Mountain Book Award 2010-11Summary: 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.
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.
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Green Mountain Book Award 2010-11
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