Literary work
Author
Publisher
Einaudi
Year
City
Torino
Language
Italiano
ISBN code
8806219588
Pages number
348
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The novel, with an autofictional structure, tells of an imaginary criminal community of Siberian origin, the Urka, settled in Transnistria - today Moldavia - after the Stalinist deportation. The language, now verbal, now symbolic and now corporal, of the Urkas is told with a diegetic precision that recovers documentary tones: what emerges is an anthropology of the criminal community, a reportage of its mafia-style ritual traditions.