A shocking expose of an extraordinary Siberian criminal underworld.
We are transported to a world of extraordinary violence where even children are sucked into a truly shocking code of behaviour.
You cannot describe the morality of this world because there is no morality. Yet the criminal protagonists live by a traditional and, among themselves, respected code of behaviour. To go against it, or even be ignorant of it, is to risk unspeakable revenge - even among one's own family. Among the unworthy, you yourself have become unworthy. 'Dignity, once lost, never returns'.
Reading this book, you become part a criminal world where 'the only thing a worthy criminal takes from the cops is a beating, and even that he gives back, when the right moment comes'. Be very careful.
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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.
Siberian Education features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Biographies & Autobiographies, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
Siberian Education is available in Paperback, Ebook
Siberian Education was written by Nicolai Lilin and published by McClelland & Stewart
£25.20
