Ebook {Epub PDF} City of Thieves by David Benioff

“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 /5(K).  · David Benioff`s City of Thieves is a well-written and engaging story set during the times of World War II in Russia`s Leningrad. Set in the year , City of Thieves is all about the adventurous journey of two youths, Lev Abramovich Beniov and Kolya Vlasov, to find a dozen eggs for a Soviet officer/5. 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 by David Benioff starting at $ City of Thieves has 8 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, the New York Times bestseller 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. David Benioff was born and raised in New York City. 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.

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 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. City of Thieves Summary. Next. Prologue. The novel begins with David as the narrator. He is an American who describes himself as growing up knowing that his grandfather killed two Germans in a knife fight before he was 18, even though he was never actually told the story. As a child David lived two blocks away from his grandparents, who owned an insurance company.