Tyvenes By by David Benioff
Set during the 1942 Siege of Leningrad, this novel follows two young men—one a timid Jewish teenager and the other a charismatic deserter—who are arrested for looting and given a near-impossible reprieve: find a dozen fresh eggs for a Soviet colonel’s daughter or face execution. Their trek across war-scarred countryside becomes an episodic odyssey of survival and dark humor, exposing the brutality, scarcity, and moral compromises of wartime while forging an unlikely friendship that forces both to confront courage, identity, and what it means to stay human amid devastation.
- Published
- 2008
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- English
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