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Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Nicolai Lilin
Translated by Jonathan Hunt
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:464
Dimensions(mm): Height 230,Width 152
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
Memoirs
True Crime
Crime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9781921656323
ClassificationsDewey:364.1092
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Text Publishing
Imprint The Text Publishing Company
Publication Date 31 May 2010
Publication Country Australia

Description

The only thing a worthy criminal takes from the cops is a beating, and even that he gives back, when the right moment comes. Siberian Education is the story of a tiny, tightly knit community of 'honest' and 'dishonest' criminals in Transnistria, a remote region between Moldovia and the Ukraine. This is a place with a strict code of honour, a complex hierarchy, and a deep distrust of outsiders - and especially police. Transgressions bring swift and severe retribution, and weapons are treated almost as religious icons. Nicolai Lilin's memoir is an account of a young boy growing up in a world that is strangely recognisable, yet unlike anything we have experienced. Controversial, brutally honest and sometimes disturbing, Siberian Education takes the reader to a place no writer had ever been.

Author Biography

Nicolai Lilin grew up in the small republic of Transnistria, which declared its independence in 1990 but has never been recognised. He fought in the Russian army against the Chechens, became a fisherman off the coast of Ireland for a year and now runs a tattoo parlour in Turin.