TY - BOOK AU - Benioff,David TI - City of thieves: a novel SN - 9780452295315 AV - FIC B46 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Plume KW - Grandparent and child KW - Fiction KW - Reminiscing in old age KW - Russians KW - United States KW - Saint Petersburg (Russia) KW - History KW - Siege, 1941-1944 N1 - Originally published: New York : Viking, 2008 N2 - Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake ER -