City of Thieves by David Benioff
Leningrad is on its knees in its fifth month under siege when seventeen-year-old Lev is thrown into jail for looting a dead German soldier. As he waits through the interminable night before his certain execution, he is joined by Kolya, an aristocratic Russian deserter. The next morning, instead of the firing squad, they face an NKVD colonel. His daughter is getting married, and his wife insists on a wedding cake. Lev and Kolya must find a dozen eggs for it, or die...
The book's eight stories are written with both a literary writer's care and a film writer's instinct for courting his readers or viewersHe hooks them, reels them in and does his best to make them happy to be in the boat with him -- until he lets them go a few hours later * USA Today *
The latest master of the zippy, punchy, knee-to-the-groin story is David Benioff . . . Wonderful collection * Independent on Sunday *
Benioff is particularly good at using the compressed lives of lonely individuals to convey something of an incomprehensible world beyond. * Metro *
'Beautifully paced and seemingly effortless, these stories display all of David Benioff's prodigious gifts as a writer: his sly wit and knowingness, his acute social observation and his understanding of loss and longing, and also the wide range of territory he has made his own' * Maile Meloy *
'The new book from feted screenwriter David Benioff . . . has all the twists of a great movie' * Courier Mail, Brisbane *
The latest master of the zippy, punchy, knee-to-the-groin story is David Benioff . . . Wonderful collection * Independent on Sunday *
Benioff is particularly good at using the compressed lives of lonely individuals to convey something of an incomprehensible world beyond. * Metro *
'Beautifully paced and seemingly effortless, these stories display all of David Benioff's prodigious gifts as a writer: his sly wit and knowingness, his acute social observation and his understanding of loss and longing, and also the wide range of territory he has made his own' * Maile Meloy *
'The new book from feted screenwriter David Benioff . . . has all the twists of a great movie' * Courier Mail, Brisbane *
David Benioff has published articles and stories in GQ, Seventeen and Zoetrope. Born and raised in New York City, he now lives in Los Angeles. This is the long-awaited new novel by the critically-acclaimed author of THE 25TH HOUR and WHEN THE NINES ROLL OVER.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340923153 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340923156 |
| Title | City of Thieves |
| Author | David Benioff |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2008-06-26 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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