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.
- | Author: David Benioff
- | Publisher: Penguin Books
- | Publication Date: March 31, 2009
- | Number of Pages: 258 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0452295297
- | ISBN-13: 9780452295292