Siberian Education: Family, Honour, and Tattoos: An Extraordinary Underworld Life |
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| Authors: | Lilin, Nicolai |
| Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart |
| BISAC/Subject: | BIO024000, TRU000000, TRU003000, TRU004000 |
| ISBN: | 9780771050299, Related ISBNs: 0771050275, 0771050283, 0771050291, 9780771050275, 9780771050282 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 464, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: 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.
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