Siberian Education
Author | : Nicolai Lilin |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2010 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780771050275 |
ISBN-13 | : 0771050275 |
Rating | : 4/5 (275 Downloads) |
Download or read book Siberian Education written by Nicolai Lilin and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.