David Benioff

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.

A Novel

City of Thieves

George R. R. Martin

Bryan Cogman

D. B. Weiss

An official companion to the highly rated cable series offers new insights into its characters and storylines, providing hundreds of set photos, designs and insider accounts as well as actor and crew interviews that describe memorable scripted and unscripted moments from the first two seasons. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.) TV tie-in.

Seasons 1 & 2

Inside HBO's Game of Thrones

The 25th Hour

Ursula-Maria Mössner

A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds.

Roman

Stadt der Diebe

La città dei ladri

Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog moeten een deserteur en een dief uit Leningrad hun leven zien te redden door een absurde opdracht uit te voeren achter de Duitse linies.

Stad der dieven / druk 1

In a collection of eight humorous and insightful stories, the author of The 25th Hour provides a journey inside the world of the American urban male, introducing such rich characters as a faded football star, soldiers in a Russian winter, a punk rocker, and others on the edge of discovery, loss, pleasure, friendship, and change in their lives. Reprint.

And Other Stories

When the Nines Roll Over

Monty Brogan joins his best friends, bond trader Frank Slattery and English teacher Jakob Elinsky, on a final night on the town before serving out a sentence at the Otisvile federal prison, and executes a shocking plan.

En un Leningrado en guerra, durante el invierno más frío de la historia, Lev, un joven de diecisiete años detenido por saquear el cuerpo de un paracaidista muerto, y Kolya, un valiente soldado acusado de deserción, se enfrentan a un desafío casi imposible: encontrar una docena de huevos para el pastel de boda de la hija de un poderoso coronel del ejército ruso en una ciudad asolada por el hambre y la miseria. Encontrarlos significa la vida. Fracasar, la muerte.

Ciudad de ladrones

Leningrad is on its knees in its fifth month under siege when seventeen-year-old Lev is thrown into jail for looting a dead German soldier. As he waits through the interminable night before his certain execution, he is joined by Kolya, an aristocratic Russian deserter. The next morning, instead of the firing squad, they face an NKVD colonel. His daughter is getting married, and his wife insists on a wedding cake. Lev and Kolya must find a dozen eggs for it, or die...

Khaled Hosseini

Roberto Schaefer

Marc Forster

Khalid Abdalla

Homayoun Ershadi

Shaun Toub

"es gibt eine Möglichkeit, es wieder gutzumachen"

Drachenläufer

17-årige Lev og soldaten Kolja står til dødsstraf under Leningrads belejring. De får dog en chance, hvis de kan skaffe et dusin æg til en oberstdatters bryllupskage.

Grad lopova

From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour comes a captivating novel about war, courage, survival and a remarkable friendship. Stumped by a magazine assignment to write about his own uneventful life, a man visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. Reluctantly, his grandfather commences a story that will take almost a week to tell: an odyssey of two young men determined to survive.

谢佩妏

窃盗城市

Dreamworks Pictures

Walter F. Parkes

The Kite Runner

Stad der dieven

In When the Nines Roll Over, David Benioff (The 25th Hour, City of Thieves) uses humor and rich characterizations to explore the sometimes thrilling, sometimes pathetic emotional lives of a diverse set of characters. Over the course of eight stories, we are introduced to a host of young people on the cusp of discovery and loss. As he evokes the various states of agony and pleasure—humiliation, rebellion, camaraderie, and desire—Benioff displays a profound understanding of the transformative power of a single moment and how sadness can be illuminated by a humorous flip side. When the Nines Roll Over confirms the promise of a gifted writer emerging as a storytelling force.

Divertidas, pat&éticas, emotivas, conmovedoras, tristes... las vidas de los personajes que dibuja Benioff en esta colecci&ón de relatos son ventanas a una realidad que la prosa del autor hace nuestra. Un productor musical que promete el cielo a una desconocida cantante, apart&ándola de su banda y de su novio. Un soldado ruso, joven& e inexperto, obligado a matar a una anciana en un desolado bosque de Chechenia. Un joven que roba las cenizas del padre de su ex-novia. Una antigua estrella del f&útbol que recuerda el amor de su vida. El hijo de un cazador de leones que tiene que hacer frente a uno... en pleno Manhattan. Una actriz que jam&ás consigue el papel de su vida... gente en la encrucijada de la vida. El deseo, la esperanza y el des&ánimo se vierten a partes iguales en un pu&ñado de historias que nos hablan de vidas tan extra&ñas y a la vez tan cercanas a las nuestras.

David Benioff

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