Oh my goodness is this a good book!
Okay, it's dark, and vulgar, and at points it is disturbing, but it's worth working through!
There's an impossible quest. Two strangers are given the task of finding one dozen eggs in a city that is starving so extremely that they are eating boiled books and sawdust. In the markets they are selling bottles of dirt that have been dug up from below the sugar factory that was bombed. As impossible as the task is, the two men have had their ration cards taken away, and will not get them back until they return with the eggs.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and more fascinating. This is the true story of the author's grandfather.