258 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2009 by Plume.
5 stars
(2 reviews)
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
- Russians
- Reminiscing in old age
- Grandparent and child
- Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944) fast (OCoLC)fst01354921
- Fiction
- History