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Siberian Education
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.
Siberian Education
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
Marvelous and Illuminating. . . . Forces us to reassess our notions of good and evil. --Irvine Welsh
Free Fall
Free Fall tells the brutal engrossing story of the Second Chechen War, through the eyes of a young Russian Soldier. Nicolai Lilin was trained as a sniper in an unorthodox Russian Special Forces regiment called the Saboteurs. This hardened and close-knit band of brothers, operating beyond the control of military code, faced mercenary fighters, anti-personnel mines and torture of the most extreme kind. Free Fall offers a sniper's-eye view of one of the most controversial wars in living memory. It is unflinching, unforgiving and unputdownable.
Sniper
Writing with unhindered directness and power, Lilin combines his own experiences as a sniper in Chechnya together with the stories of those he fought beside to forge an autobiographical novel unique in the literature of war.
Sibirisk uppfostran
I det omstridda och laglösa Transnistrien, beläget mellan Moldavien och Ukraina, lever en tätt sammansvetsad grupp »hederliga kriminella« en gång deporterade av Stalin i enlighet med strikta koder för ritualiserad respekt och kompromisslös lojalitet. Här berättar tatueringar historien om en människas liv, »hederliga« vapen särskiljs från »syndiga« och auktoritet är något som alltid bör misstros. Utom kontroll för alla regeringar, och utanför samhällets gränser såsom vi känner det, upprätthåller URKA-kulturen värden som djup respekt för de äldre och ett orubbligt fasthållande vid sanningen, en hållning som utövas med passion och ofta med brutalt våld. I ...
Educazione siberiana
«Senza pensare ho preso la mitica Tokarev di mio nonno e sono corso dietro ai poliziotti. L'unica cosa che sentivo era una specie di gioia di esistere. Mi sono fermato davanti a uno di loro, i suoi occhi erano stanchi e tristi. Ho mirato alla faccia, ho cercato di premere il grilletto con tutte le mie forze, ma non riuscivo a muoverlo di un millimetro. Mio padre ha cominciato a ridere: - Vieni qui, piede scalzo! Non va bene sparare in casa, non lo sai?»
The Sniper
Stalingrad snipers were a legend in their time. Their patience, keen eyes and ruthlessness helped win the Battle of Stalingrad and turn the tide of the Second World War. This is the true story of a teenage sniper recruited in 1942 by Vasily Zaitsev to seek out and shoot German officers. To begin with, the youngster finds it almost impossible to kill, but after a shocking discovery, goes on to 'snap as many as 84 German sticks', and following capture and a daredevil escape, leads a handpicked unit on a hazardous mission to seize Field Marshall Paulus, the Commander-in-Chief of the invading army. But this sniper is no ordinary marksman. The author first visited Stalingrad in 1959, and made subsequent visits in 1963 and, most recently, in 2006, when he met Tania Chernova, the heroine of this novel. Having studied Russian in Birmingham and Moscow, James Riordan lived, worked and travelled extensively in Russia for five years, and has presented several BBC radio programmes on Russia. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Russian at the University of Surrey.
Rasputin
Dopo il successo di Putin e Ucraina, Nicolai Lilin ci racconta l'enigma Rasputin, una delle figure più affascinanti, controverse e misteriose della storia russa. Rasputin è stato tante cose: un mistico rozzo ma con grande seguito, un guaritore, un seduttore, un visionario dai tratti profetici, un manipolatore di anime morte, per dirla con Gogol, un abile e furbo stratega. Un "impostore" dalla vita piena di contraddizioni, un arrampicatore sociale, un genio che sapeva parlare al cuore delle persone semplici e non solo. Aveva ai suoi piedi la dinastia dei Romanov. Come ha fatto a diventare l'uomo di fiducia dello zar? Chi era veramente questo contadino semianalfabeta, ma con un carisma strao...
