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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction
Peripatetic, funny, moving adventures of an unlikely Butch and Sundance, from the screenwriter of HBO's GAME OF THRONES.
Four months into the siege of Leningrad, the city is starving. Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for looting the body of a dead German paratrooper, while his charismatic cellmate Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested for desertion, seems bizarrely unafraid. Dawn brings, instead of the execution squad, an impossible challenge. Lev and Kolya can find a dozen eggs for an NKVD colonel to use for his daughter's wedding cake, and live. Or fail, and die. In the depths of the coldest winter in history, through a city cut off from all supplies and suffering appalling deprivation, man and boy embark on an absurd hunt. Their search will take them through desolate, lawless Leningrad and the devastated countryside surrounding it, in the captivating journey of two men trying to survive against desperate odds.
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Praise for City of Thieves
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Complex and compelling . . . a thought-provoking novel that leaves its own lingering, haunting presence in the reader's imagination - Waterstones Books Quarterly
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This gut-churning thriller will sweep you along and, with any luck, propel Benioff into bestseller land - Kirkus - starred review
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Told with compelling power - Sunday Telegraph
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Expert tone . . . fine sense of pace. - Financial Times
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A hard-to-put-down novel . . . Benioff blends tense adventure, a bittersweet coming-of-age and an oddly touching buddy narrative to craft a smart crowd-pleaser - Publisher's Weekly
David Benioff
David Benioff is an author and screenwriter. He adapted his first novel, The 25th Hour, into the feature film directed by Spike Lee. Stories from his critically acclaimed collection When the Nines Roll Over appeared in Best New American Voices. City of Thieves is his second novel. A co-creator of the HBO hit series Game of Thrones, he is also the writer of the films Troy, Brothers and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He lives in Los Angeles and New York City.
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