The narrator changes to Lev (David's grandfather) and it's New Year's Eve in 1942 in Leningrad, Russia, during World War II. The reader also learns that David's grandmother never cooks herself anything more complex than a bowl of cereal. He flies to Florida to speak with his grandfather, and for a week David records his grandfather's stories. David lives in Los Angeles writing screenplays, but when he was asked to write an autobiographical essay, he decided he wanted to write instead about Leningrad, where his grandfather grew up. Eventually, the conglomerate agreed and David's grandparents retired to Florida. In the late 1990s, an insurance conglomerate offered to purchase the company, and David's grandmother asked them to double their offer. As a child, David lived two blocks away from his grandparents, who owned an insurance company. He is an American who describes himself as growing up knowing that his grandfather killed two Germans in a knife fight before he was 18, even though he was never actually told the story. The novel begins with David as the narrator. The audiobook, narrated by Ron Perlman, was released by Penguin Audio on January 8, 2009. It was released by Plume on May 15, 2008. It follows the adventures of two youths as they desperately search for a dozen eggs at the behest of a Soviet NKVD officer, a task that takes them far behind enemy lines. It is, in part, a coming of age story set in the World War II siege of Leningrad. City of Thieves is a 2008 historical fiction novel by David Benioff.
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