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City of Thieves: A Novel - David Benioff
City of Thieves: A Novel
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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. ... show more
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 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.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN: 9780143143475 (0143143476)
ASIN: 0143143476
Publisher: Penguin
Minutes: 9
Edition language: English
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CluckingBell
CluckingBell rated it
4.0 City of Thieves: A Novel
I'm not accustomed to listening to audiobooks, so I'd like to read-read this at some point. I wasn't completely enthralled by the audio version, so my rating could go up; on the other hand, if I'm giving it my undivided attention in print (as opposed to giving at least half my attention to the act o...
Clif's Book World
Clif's Book World rated it
4.0
This is a well written historical novel that describes the adventures of some young Russians during the siege of Leningrad during World War II. Needless to say, it was not a good time for humanity. But if you want to tell a story of life and death, a time that concentrates the mind, you tell a sto...
Another fine mess
Another fine mess rated it
3.0
Consistently clean, smart prose, and a decent quest novel centered around the WWII siege of St. Petersburg and the search for a dozen eggs. Benioff writes male-male relationships well, and has an ear for clever (but not too clever) dialogue, and cuts across tones (the silly McGuffin of the egg-ques...
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