Siberian Education
Download or Read eBook Siberian Education PDF written by Nicolai Lilin and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Nicolai Lilin |
| Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
| Total Pages | : 459 |
| Release | : 2010-10-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780771050299 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0771050291 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Siberian Education by : Nicolai Lilin
Book excerpt: A vivid, shocking, at times poetic revelation of a world we never imagined existed. Siberian Education is a real-life Eastern Promises seen through the eyes of a boy growing up in the close-knit community of the Urkas, descendants of criminals relocated from Siberia to the banks of the Dniester River, between Moldavia and Ukraine, in the 1930s. A tale of an extreme boyhood — violent, governed by rules of honour passed down through legend and taught via elaborate and mysterious tattoos, and ultimatedly doomed to disappear amidst post-Soviet capitalist gangsterism: an utterly unique look at a vanished society from someone who knew it intimately, even though he is not yet 30 years old.
