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June Hyung(Eric) Kim Ms. Manning English 9 7/27/15 City of Thieves This book, is narrated by a 17 years old Jewish guy called Lev Beniov, who is living in Leningrad. City of Thieves by David Benioff, starts off with Lev telling the audiences about extreme depression that has came after the Germans invaded the Leningrad in 1942. Even though most of the citizens of Leningrad, including his family are dead, Lev wants to stay behind and fight for his city. Since he was too young to join the army, he decides to work as a firefighter with his friends. When the dead German soldiers lands near, Lev tries to loot the soldier’s body but gets caught and brought to jail. Lev meets a handsome soldier called Kolya in the jail and they got pretty close to …show more content…

In a city without any supplies, Lev and Kolya goes on to a journey to find eggs. They spends their first night at Sonya’s house, which is Kolya’s friend. The next morning, they start searching for eggs and hears that an old man near the Narva gate has chickens. Kolya and Lev goes to the Narva gate as soon as they hear that and waits outside the locked building. Koyla and Lev are extremely surprised when they hear that the chickens really do exist but as soon as they reached the roof, they were terrified by the dead bodies inside the …show more content…

I usually read action, or horror books and they are mostly about saving someone, or killing someone so reading City of Thieves was a new challenge for me. When I decided to read this book, I was curious and worried at the same time because I know that I’m not good at social study. This book happened in 1942, when the Nazis invaded the Leningrad and I think this book did a amazing job explaining how difficult Russia was during war with the Nazis. Even though the author wasn't there during the war, I was able to picture every single details he wrote about how Leningrad was during the war. This book was kind of challenging for me to read because I’m not that expert at English. I was expecting it to be challenging since this book was one of the more challenging ones. While I was reading this book, I was able to imagine how much research the author have done to write this book because everything was so detailed and

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