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CITY OF THIEVES is tender, illuminating, and, be warned, often shocking. ' Khaled Hosseini. 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 ...
15 de may. de 2008 · By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, the New York Times bestseller 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. Author and screenwriter Benioff follows up The 25th Hour with this hard-to-put-down novel based on ...
15 de may. de 2008 · City of Thieves: A Novel - Kindle edition by Benioff, David. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading City of Thieves: A Novel.
15 de may. de 2008 · About the Siege of Leningrad The siege of Leningrad is an event so horrific that it stands out even in the context of World War II. City of Thieves is the first book about it that I read and keep coming back to – growing up in the Soviet Union, I had learned enough in school and from the experiences of family and others to believe I knew all there was to know on the topic.
A beguiling new novel from the acclaimed author and screenwriter of The 25th Hour, City of Thieves is a winning picaresque tale that illuminates the timeless struggles of growing up against the dramatic backdrop of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. David Benioff is an author and screenwriter. His first novel, The 25th Hour, was adapted ...
"City of Thieves is a coming-of-age story brilliantly amplified by its worn-torn backdrop . . . Benioff's finest achievement in "City of Thieves" has been to banish all possible pretensions from his novel, which never wears its research on its sleeve, and to deliver a rough-and-tumble tale that clenches humor, savagery, and pathos squarely together on the same page."
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 ...
