Лучшие книги Дэвида Бениоффа

Эти двое ни при каких обстоятельствах не стали бы друзьями. Они встречаются, когда обоих ожидает расстрел. В тюрьме. В блокадном Ленинграде. В 1942 году.
Один – задумчивый, не очень храбрый, немного угрюмый подросток Лев, сын репрессированного поэта. И второй – беспечный покоритель женских сердец Николай. И вдруг им выпадает неожиданный шанс выжить…
Динамичный, хлесткий, кинематографичный роман о блокадном Ленинграде, который написал голливудский сценарист Дэвид Бениофф. Это новый взгляд современного молодого человека на прошлое своей семьи, на войну – и, несмотря на ирреальность происходящего, очень искренняя история о настоящей дружбе и настоящей любви.

Four months into the siege of Leningrad, the city is starving. Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for looting the body of a dead German paratrooper, while his charismatic cellmate Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested for desertion, seems bizarrely unafraid. Dawn brings, instead of the execution squad, an impossible challenge. Lev and Kolya can find a dozen eggs for an NKVD colonel to use for his daughter's wedding cake, and live. Or fail, and die. In the depths of the coldest winter in history, through a city cut off from all supplies and suffering appalling deprivation, man and boy embark on an absurd hunt. Their search will take them through desolate, lawless Leningrad and the devastated countryside surrounding it, in the captivating journey of two men trying to survive against desperate odds.

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. 20,000 first printing.

All Monty Brogan ever really wanted when he grew up was to be a fireman. Now he's about to start a seven-year stretch in the federal penitentiary for drug dealing. With just twenty-four hours of freedom to go, he prowls the city with his girlfriend and his two best friends from high school-a high-flying bond trader and an idealistic teacher. As the minutes count down, Monty seizes one last chance to stack the odds in his favor.

Hurtling from the money pits of Wall Street to Manhattan's downtown lounge and club scene, from the enclaves of the Russian mob to the old immigrant neighborhoods, The 25th Hour evokes the pulsing rhythms and diamond-hard edges of a city in the raw, illusory hours between midnight and dawn. A taut and mesmerizing tale of an urban purgatory suspended between the crime and the punishment, The 25th Hour is a major player in contemporary noir fiction from the author of the bestselling novel City of Thieves and the short story collection When the Nines Roll Over.