City of thieves
Subtitle: a novel
By: David Benioff.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780670018703
Subjects: Grandparent and child -- Fiction; Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction; Russians -- United States -- Fiction; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction; Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.