![]() They leave the city and go behind enemy lines. If they are unable to find the eggs (a luxury in the starving Leningrad), both will be executed.ĭuring Lev and Kolya's search for the eggs, they encounter a pair of cannibals and a boy in the black market selling "library candy", food made from the bindings of books. The two are brought to Colonel Grechko of the NKVD who barters with them: if they are able to obtain a dozen eggs so the colonel's wife can bake their daughter's wedding cake, Lev and Kolya will be given their freedom. Thrown in prison, he meets Kolya Vlasov, a young Cossack soldier arrested for deserting his unit. Lev is arrested for looting the corpse of a Luftwaffe pilot. It is set in the first week of 1942, with the 17-years-old Lev trying to survive the siege of Leningrad after his father is "disappeared" by the NKVD and his mother and sister flee the city. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is introduced as the recollections of the narrator's grandfather Lev Beniov, a contemporary Russian Jewish émigré. ![]()
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