City of thieves
By: David Benioff
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.
Subjects & Categories
Russiansnyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-04-19Siege, 1941-1944Fiction, historicalSurvival after airplane accidents, shipwrecksReminiscing in old ageNew York Times reviewedSaint Petersburg (Russia)PsychologyHistoryUnited StatesNew York Times bestsellerSaint PetersburgGrandparent and childSaint petersburg (russia), fictionDomestic fiction
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