City of Thieves
A novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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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From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over , 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 daughter's 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.
Autoren-Porträt von David Benioff
David Benioff, geb. 1970, debütierte 2002 mit dem Roman 'Die 25. Stunde', der von Spike Lee mit Edward Norton und Philipp Seymour Hoffmann in den Hauptrollen verfilmt wurde. Seither arbeitet er als Drehbuchautor, adaptierte 'Der Drachenläufer' für das Kino und schrieb unter anderem das Drehbuch zu 'Troja'. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Benioff
- 2009, 336 Seiten, Maße: 10,6 x 17,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Plume
- ISBN-10: 0452295319
- ISBN-13: 9780452295315
Sprache:
Englisch
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