Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
Benioff follows up "The 25th Hour" with this hard-to-put-down novel based on his grandfather's stories about surviving World War II in Russia.
Review Quotes: "The novel tells a refreshingly traditional tale, driven by an often ingenious plot . . . [Benioff] shifts tone with perfect control--no recent novel I have read travels so quickly and surely between registers, from humor to devastation."
--The New York Times Book Review
"This spellbinding story perfectly blends tragedy and comedy."
--USA Today "Splendid . . . Benioff has produced a funny, sad, and thrilling novel."
--Entertainment Weekly "Benioff (a co-creator of HBO's "Game of Thrones") peppers his swift-moving plot with pitch-dark humor and unexpected turns. It's a rousing reading experience, to cackle aloud at one paragraph then gasp at the next. . . . I'm glad I waited until warm weather to start this winter's tale. But really, any other time would have been just fine. There's no bad season to read a book this good."
--Ken Jaworowski, The New York Times Book Review
"Benioff blends humor and horror expertly."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"A deft storyteller, Benioff writes about starvation, cannibalism, and Nazi atrocities with poise and cinematic flair. If
Thieves were a movie, it would start out like
Schindler's List and end up like
Raiders of the Lost Ark."
--People "
City of Thieves is a coming-of-age story brilliantly amplified by its worn-torn backdrop . . . Benioff's finest achievement in "City of Thieves" has been to banish all possible pretensions from his novel, which never wears its research on its sleeve, and to deliver a rough-and-tumble tale that clenches humor, savagery, and pathos squarely together on the same page."
--The Washington Post "
City of Thieves is flat-out great . . . Benioff's screen writing chops are in full force here - the plot careens along with cinematic verve - but that's expected. The surprise is Benioff's understated wisdom and tenderness."
--Men's Journal "David Benioff, has written a gripping war novel. With lots of humour, suspense and tragedy he shows the desperate lives of the people who were caught between two opposing forces during the Second World War."
--The Guardian
