Title: City of thieves
Description: 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.
Subjects: War Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Grandparent and child, History, Reminiscing in old age, Russians, Survival, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Large type books, Fiction, family life, Saint petersburg (russia), fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, collectionID:TexChallenge2021, Survivalism, Social conditions, Survivalisme, Romans, nouvelles, Histoire, Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944) fast (OCoLC)fst01354921, Elderly, Grandparent-grandchild relationship, Domestic fiction, Psychology, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-04-19, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical
Places: Russia, Leningrad, Saint Petersburg (Russia), United States, Russia (Federation), Saint Petersburg
Time periods: Siege, 1941-1944