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Title | Siberian Education | Height | 215 mm |
Author | Nicolai Lilin | Width | 139 mm |
ISBN-13 | 9781847677778 | Binding | PAPERBACK |
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Publisher | Canongate Books | Pages | |
Edition | Availability | Out Of Stock |

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Siberian Education
Author: Nicolai Lilin
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.