num_pages: 258
description: 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 daughters 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.
language: English
title: City of Thieves
publisher: Viking / Penguin