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by Nicolai Lilin · Einaudi · tapa blanda · 330 pages
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Caduta Libera es una novela de Nicolai Lilin que sumerge al lector en la crudeza de la guerra chechena a través de la experiencia de un joven soldado ruso. La historia, narrada desde una perspectiva visceral y sin adornos, ofrece una visión impactante de la vida en el frente, donde la línea entre el bien y el mal se desdibuja en medio del caos y la violencia. Lilin, basándose en sus propias vivencias, construye un relato apolítico y neutral que busca transmitir la verdadera cara de la guerra, mostrando las contradicciones, los horrores y los actos de honestidad que emergen en el día a día del conflicto.
Nikolai Yurievich Verzhbitsky, known as Nicolai Lilin, is an Italian‑Moldovan writer and tattoo artist from Transnistria. He moved to Italy in the early 2000s and published his first novel, Siberian Education, in 2009; it was later adapted into a 2013 film. The novel, which Lilin claimed was based on his own experiences as a member of a Siberian criminal gang in his native Bender, became a bestseller in Italy, though a number of journalists and historians have labelled it a fake memoir. Similar criticisms were directed at its sequel, Free Fall, which recounts the author's alleged experiences during the Second Chechen War.
