Новинки Дэвида Бениоффа

Эти двое ни при каких обстоятельствах не стали бы друзьями. Они встречаются, когда обоих ожидает расстрел. В тюрьме. В блокадном Ленинграде. В 1942 году. Один – задумчивый, не очень храбрый, немного угрюмый подросток Лев, сын репрессированного поэта. И второй – беспечный покоритель женских сердец Николай. И вдруг им выпадает неожиданный шанс выжить… Динамичный, хлесткий, кинематографичный роман о блокадном Ленинграде, который написал голливудский сценарист Дэвид Бениофф. Это новый взгляд современного молодого человека на прошлое своей семьи, на войну – и, несмотря на ирреальность происходящего, очень искренняя история о настоящей дружбе и…

Documenting his reluctant grandparents' experiences during the infamous siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he endeavored to secure their pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.

In a collection of eight humorous and insightful stories, the author of The 25th Hour provides a journey inside the world of the American urban male, introducing such rich characters as a faded football star, soldiers in a Russian winter, a punk rocker, and others on the edge of discovery, loss, pleasure, friendship, and change in their lives. 20,000 first printing.

All Monty Brogan ever really wanted when he grew up was to be a fireman. Now he's about to start a seven-year stretch in the federal penitentiary for drug dealing. With just twenty-four hours of freedom to go, he prowls the city with his girlfriend and his two best friends from high school-a high-flying bond trader and an idealistic teacher. As the minutes count down, Monty seizes one last chance to stack the odds in his favor.

Hurtling from the money pits of Wall Street to Manhattan's downtown lounge and club scene, from the enclaves of the Russian mob to the old immigrant neighborhoods, The 25th Hour evokes the pulsing rhythms and diamond-hard edges of a city in the raw, illusory hours between midnight and dawn. A taut and mesmerizing tale of an urban purgatory suspended between the crime and the punishment, The 25th Hour is a major player in contemporary noir fiction from the author of the bestselling novel City of Thieves and the short story collection When the Nines Roll Over.