Hunger
By: by Elise Blackwell.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- Fiction.; Rare plants -- Fiction.; Scientists -- Fiction.; Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the wake of the Siege of Leningrad in 1941, during which hundreds of thousands of people starved to death, a scientist charged with protecting a collection of rare seeds that could provide food is forced to make a terrible choice.