During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off ...
During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible.
By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, 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.
作者简介
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David Benioff worked as a nightclub bouncer in San Francisco, a radio DJ in Wyoming and an English teacher/wrestling coach in Brooklyn before selling his first novel, The 25th Hour, in 2000.
He later wrote the screenplay for Spike Lee’s adaptation of 25th Hour starring Edward Norton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. In 2005, Viking Press published Benioff’s collection of short stori...
David Benioff worked as a nightclub bouncer in San Francisco, a radio DJ in Wyoming and an English teacher/wrestling coach in Brooklyn before selling his first novel, The 25th Hour, in 2000.
He later wrote the screenplay for Spike Lee’s adaptation of 25th Hour starring Edward Norton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. In 2005, Viking Press published Benioff’s collection of short stories, When the Nines Roll Over.
Benioff’s screenwriting credits include Troy (2004), directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and Stay (2005), directed by Marc Forster, The Kite Runner (2007). Jim Sheridan produced Benioff’s screenplay Brothers, and Hugh Jackman reprised his role as the clawed mutant in Benioff’s Wolverine. He is also screenwriter and executive producer of Game of Thrones, HBO's adaptation of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels.
Viking published his most recent novel, City of Thieves, in May 2008.
Benioff is married to actress Amanda Peet; the couple has three children.
Everything about the war was ridiculous: the Germans’ barbarity, the Party’s propaganda, the crossfire of incendiary bullets that lit the nighttime sky. It all seemed to him like someone else’s story, an amazingly detailed story that he had stumbled into and now could not escape. (查看原文)
0 有用 Albatross 2016-09-27 03:15:46
列宁格勒保卫战的背景设定很讨巧，情节推进很快，人物塑造性格鲜明，上下班在火车上很快就读完了。缺点是书名有点标题党（明明没有贼嘛），结局有点俗套。
0 有用 等等等等 2025-06-28 05:25:55 美国
读得很沉浸，一头栽进列宁格勒的寒冬。被围困的城市里饥饿到人性泯灭，防线外是敌人令人不寒而栗的傲慢残酷。讽刺的部分是能预判的，好看并不仅在于情节，叙事和心理活动都写得非常吸引人。和纳粹下棋的高潮戏应该不容易写好，读完有像看了电影运镜一样的代入感。 我想我会长久地记得一大一小两个男孩在夜色里穿行于白雪覆盖的山林，一个怀揣着一盒鸡蛋眉飞色舞滔滔不绝，一个沉默着皱着眉低着头走偶尔应和。命运的事往后不能想，... 读得很沉浸，一头栽进列宁格勒的寒冬。被围困的城市里饥饿到人性泯灭，防线外是敌人令人不寒而栗的傲慢残酷。讽刺的部分是能预判的，好看并不仅在于情节，叙事和心理活动都写得非常吸引人。和纳粹下棋的高潮戏应该不容易写好，读完有像看了电影运镜一样的代入感。 我想我会长久地记得一大一小两个男孩在夜色里穿行于白雪覆盖的山林，一个怀揣着一盒鸡蛋眉飞色舞滔滔不绝，一个沉默着皱着眉低着头走偶尔应和。命运的事往后不能想，往前不敢想，命虽如草芥，渺小如斯，也顽强如斯。 (展开)
0 有用 微波桂圆 2019-04-04 11:44:22
今年目前为止读到最好的小说
0 有用 内陆帝国 2025-01-18 08:50:19 河南
人物鲜明，情节有趣，描写入微，很心流的阅读体验，随时随地看几行就能沉浸其中。在这个冬天看这本书，吃饭更香了。
0 有用 Raison d'Être 2018-06-19 20:14:03
虽然从一开始就知道K会死，但是他坚持到了最后啊！他才20岁！