Siberian Education
Author | : Nicolai Lilin |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2010 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780771050275 |
ISBN-13 | : 0771050275 |
Rating | : 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
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.