Ebook {Epub PDF} City of Thieves by David Benioff

City of Thieves is essentially a coming-of-age quest – of the highest order. Benioff has down pat the art of writing the kind of unadorned, direct prose that buoys a story along. You almost forget you are reading City of Thieves and concentrate instead on romping through Leningrad, the tundra and enemy lines on a Boys' Own adventure. Benioff’s finest achievement in “City of Thieves” has been to banish all possible pretensions from his novel, which never wears its research on its sleeve, and to deliver a rough-and-tumble tale that clenches humor, savagery, and pathos squarely together on the same page.” —The Washington Post “City of Thieves is flat-out great Benioff’s screen writing chops are in full force here – the plot careens Pages: City of Thieves, published in , is a historical novel by Jewish American author David Benioff. The story is framed as the memories of the narrator’s grandfather, Lev Beniov. The story follows Lev, a Russian Jew, and Kolya, a Cossack soldier, during the Siege of Leningrad in World War II.

City of Thieves by David Benioff available in Trade Paperback on www.doorway.ru, also read synopsis and reviews. From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over and co-creator of. A beguiling new novel from the acclaimed author and screenwriter of The 25th Hour, City of Thieves is a winning picaresque tale that illuminates the timeless struggles of growing up against the dramatic backdrop of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. ABOUT DAVID BENIOFF. David Benioff is an author and screenwriter. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Benioff, David City of thieves: a novel / David Benioff. p. cm. eISBN: 1. Grandparent and child—Fiction. 2. Reminiscing in old age—Fiction. 3. Russians—United States—Fiction. 4. Saint Petersburg (Russia)—History—Siege, 5. Domestic fiction. [1.

“A deft storyteller, Benioff writes about starvation, cannibalism, and Nazi atrocities with poise and cinematic flair. If Thieves were a movie, it would start out like Schindler’s List and end up like Raiders of the Lost Ark.” —People "City of Thieves is a coming-of-age story brilliantly amplified by its worn-torn backdrop Benioff’s finest achievement in "City of Thieves" has been to banish all possible pretensions from his novel, which never wears its research on its sleeve. City of Thieves is a historical fiction novel by David Benioff. It is, in part, a coming of age story set in the World War II siege of Leningrad. It follows the adventures of two youths as they desperately search for a dozen eggs at the behest of a Soviet NKVD officer, a task which takes them far behind enemy lines. Plot. City of Thieves, published in , is a historical novel by Jewish American author David Benioff. The story is framed as the memories of the narrator’s grandfather, Lev Beniov. The story follows Lev, a Russian Jew, and Kolya, a Cossack soldier, during the Siege of Leningrad in World War II.