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Eighty-two-year-old Marina Buriakov, preparing for her granddaughter's wedding in Seattle, finds it more and more difficult to hold onto memories in the present, retreating often to the 1940s when, living in the basement of the Hermitage Museum with other employees during the German siege of Leningrad, she created a memory room in her mind furnished with the museum's priceless masterpieces.
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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.
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2011
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1st U.S. ed.
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Traces the history of the Nazi siege of Leningrad during World War II, examining personal accounts from diarists on both sides of the conflict, memoirs, and government records, and discussing Hitler's decision to starve the city into surrender and the incompetence and cruelty of the Soviet leadership during the war.
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The love between Tatiana, a young Russian woman, and Alexander, an officer in the Red Army, seems headed for heartbreak and tragedy in 1941 when Tatiana learns her beloved sister is also enthralled with Alexander, and a rival for Tatiana's affections is threatening to expose Alexander's past.
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