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{{quote|''"The birthplace of Bolshevism, that city of thieves and maggots."''|Hitler on Leningrad}}

 

 

In its concise 258 pages, it tells the story of Lev, a timid Jew doing his best to survive the harsh winter with no food or supplies. One day, while Lev and friends were on the roof of the apartment building where they lived, they see a German paratrooper fall from the sky (who has been dead since he ejected from the cockpit), and they quickly rush to the body and loot it (Lev gets a fancy German knife). While they're robbing the corpse, the GAZ arrive to arrest them for illegal looting (and by "arrest" we mean "shoot dead on the street"). His three friends get away, but is caught after helping one go over a fence. Instead of shooting him right then and there, they take him to the Crosses, a famous convict prison, to spend the night. There, Lev meets Kolya, a coarse and talkative army deserter.

The rest of the story follows from there; Lav and Kolya traveling through Leningrad in search these eggs.

 

 

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