Hardcover, 272 pages
English language
Published May 15, 2008 by Viking Adult, Viking.
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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.
Subjects
- Literary
- Fiction / Literary
- Fiction
- Fiction - General
- Grandparent and child
- Reminiscing in old age
- Russians
- United States