David Benioff

City of Thieves

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Produktbeschreibung

'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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / Sceptre
• Seitenzahl: 389
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9780340977392
• ISBN-10: 0340977396
• Artikelnr.: 25035848

Autorenporträt

David Benioff is an author and screenwriter. He adapted his first novel, The 25th Hour, into the feature film directed by Spike Lee. Stories from his critically acclaimed collection When the Nines Roll Over appeared in Best New American Voices. City of Thieves is his second novel. A co-creator of the HBO hit series Game of Thrones, he is also the writer of the films Troy, Brothers and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He lives in Los Angeles and New York City.

Rezensionen

David Benioff is an exceptional storyteller. With humor, 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. It is the kind of compellingly readable book that lingers long after it is read Khaled Hosseini, author of THE KITE RUNNER