Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: grandparent and child, fiction, reminiscing in old age, russians, united states, survival, grandparent-grandchild relationship, elderly, psychology, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, domestic fiction, saint petersburg (russia), history, siege, 1941-1944, fiction, domestic fiction