Biography & True Stories
In Siberia's Prisons
by Yoann Barbereau
Description
Midnight Express in Siberia. A gripping contemporary story of escape.
“The scene unfolds not far from Lake Baikal, where I live and love and am lucky enough to be loved, in Irkutsk, the capital of eastern Siberia. It’s morning, men in balaclavas appear out of nowhere. My daughter screams. She’s five years old. I’m arrested right in front of her, then beaten – expertly – and interrogated. Worst of all I’m branded with that ignominious word I struggle to commit to paper: paedophile. These men hidden behind balaclavas and shadows want my skin. They have set in motion an implacable and brutish process of destruction that has a name, a name I know, invented by the KGB: Kompromat.”
Inside Siberia’s prisons, I try to understand. In the psychiatric hospital where I’m later interned, I try to understand. I’m guaranteed fifteen years of a gruelling camp. The story of my escapes can begin.
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Reviews
“Nerve-wracking and terrifying”
Le Monde
“A literary fascinating tale”
Le Figaro Littéraire
“A sharp, coarse and ironic writing”
L'Express
Author Biography
Born in 1978, Yoann Barbereau worked in Russia for over ten years, including running the Alliance française in Irkutsk.
To escape his captors, he used every modern method available, outmanoeuvring the signals from his electronic tag and travelling hundreds of kilometres across Siberia using the carpool app BlaBlaCar and then on foot. A film freely based on his story will be brought to the big screen by Jérôme Salle, the director of Zulu which was distributed internationally.
Editions Stock (subsidiary of Hachette Livre SA)
Founded in 1708, Stock is one of the oldest publishing houses in France and has been part of the Hachette Group since 1961. In the prestigious series LA BLEUE, Stock publishes the finest multi-award winning writers from Françoise Sagan to Philippe Claudel, and new voices such as Adrien Bosc. Recently, it has expanded to include high-end women’s literary fiction. Its foreign fiction list (LA COSMOPOLITE series) includes great authors from Carson McCullers to Paolo Cognetti, from many languages. On the non-fiction side, the list is quite eclectic from philosophy (Louis Althusser) to thought-provoking investigation (Garance Le Caisne), and health with our best-selling author, Michel Cymes.
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- Publisher Editions Stock
- Publication Date February 2020
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- Publication Country or regionFrance
- FormatHardback
- Pages300
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleDans les geôles de Sibérie
- Copyright Year2019
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