Publication Date: 01/06/2009 ISBN: 9780340977392 Category:

City of Thieves

David Benioff

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Publication Date: 01/06/2009 ISBN: 9780340977392 Category:
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‘AN EXCEPTIONAL STORYTELLER’ Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

‘Ingenious’
New York Times Book Review

‘Compelling’
Daily Telegraph

‘Fast-moving’
Spectator

‘Cinematic’
Marie Claire

‘Gripping’
New York Magazine

From the co-creator and writer of the award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.

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 desertion, seems bizarrely unafraid.

Dawn brings, instead of an execution squad, an impossible challenge. Lev and Kolya can find a dozen eggs for an NKVD colonel to use for his daughter’s wedding cake, and live. Or fail, and die.

In the depths of the coldest winter in history, through a city cut off from all supplies and suffering appalling deprivation, man and boy embark on an absurd hunt. Their search will take them through desolate, lawless Leningrad and the devastated countryside surrounding it, in the captivating journey of two men trying to survive against desperate odds.

PRAISE FOR DAVID BENIOFF

‘Master of the zippy, punchy, knee-to-the-groin story’
Independent on Sunday

‘An ace storyteller’
Entertainment Weekly

‘A skilled creator’
Daily Telegraph

Publisher Review

Benioff blends tense adventure, a bittersweet coming-of-age and an oddly touching buddy narrative to craft a smart crowd-pleaser * Publisher's Weekly * Expert tone . . . fine sense of pace * Financial Times * Complex and compelling . . . a thought-provoking novel that leaves its own lingering, haunting presence in the reader's imagination * Waterstones Books Quarterly * Told with compelling power * Sunday Telegraph * David Benioff is an exceptional storyteller. With humour, heart, and at times relentless suspense, he has written a riveting war novel and an engaging coming of age story. CITY OF THIEVES is tender, illuminating, and, be warned, often shocking. -- Khaled Hosseini, author of A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner

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