Siberian Education. Growing Up In A Criminal Underworld

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 447 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers 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 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.

ISBN: 9781921656323