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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781847679338

RRP: £9.99

PAGES: 384

PUBLICATION DATE:
May 19, 2011

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Siberian Education

Nicolai Lilin

Jonathan Hunt

By the age of six, Nicolai Lilin had been given his first ‘pike knife’ by an uncle, and by the age of twelve, he had been convicted of attempted murder …Nicolai Lilin gained his ‘education’ as a member of the Siberian Urkas – a small and tight-knit community of ‘honest criminals’ in a forgotten corner of Eastern Europe …Siberian Education is his tale of an extreme childhood – exotic, violent and completely unique.

Reviews of Siberian Education

'Force yourself to forget about categories of good and evil, you have to just be there and read … produces a thrill of pleasure that is hard to forget.' Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah

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Nicolai Lilin

Nicolai Lilin was born in 1981 and grew up in the small republic of Transnistria, which declared its independence in 1990 but has never been recognised. Nicolai left home to fight in the Russian army against the Chechens. He later lived in Ireland, before moving to Italy, where he continues to work as a tattooist in Turin.