Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.
Genres
- Russians
- Reminiscing in old age
- Grandparent and child
- Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944) fast (OCoLC)fst01354921
- Fiction
- History
- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks
- Elderly
- Grandparent-grandchild relationship
- Domestic fiction
- Psychology
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-04-19
- New York Times bestseller
- New York Times reviewed
- Fiction, family life
- Saint petersburg (russia), fiction
- Grandparents, fiction
- Fiction, historical
- World war, 1939-1945, fiction
- Fiction, coming of age
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