by Nicolai Lilin · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806219574
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«Caduta libera» is the war novel by Nicolai Lilin, published by Einaudi in paperback (330 pages, in Italian).
Caduta libera recounts Lilin's experience as a marksman in a Russian army assault group during the Second Chechen War. Lilin avoids grand ideological speeches and shows the conflict up close: chaos, violence and fear dominate a narrative in which every moral certainty ultimately disappears.
«Caduta libera» is the second installment of Nicolai Lilin's «Siberian Trilogy», published in 2014 in the Super ET collection.
For readers of war fiction and first-person accounts, with an interest in the Second Chechen War and Russian soldiers.
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.
