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The world of childhood is primarily the closest: parents, grandparents, their interests, their relationships, their stories and instructions. Understanding comes later, and then it is only listening in passing, surprise, bewilderment ... These are household everyday things that are later recalled with nostalgia or rejection, but almost always with unfading brightness.
In this autobiographical, very sincere book in detail, with characteristic and well -recognized details, Soviet childhood is described. But he occupies M. Arromstam, first of all, something else - how adults at this very time were silent. How they did not have the strength to say anything about themselves. As they had no understanding of what happened to them. How they did not have a language for this. How they wanted to forget everything that you can forget ... ". In their omissions, the drama of our common story opens, the continuation of which the author finds in his life.
M. Arromstam (b. 1960) - writer, teacher, journalist, translator, author of books for children and adults. The works addressed to adolescents are awarded the prizes "Trendy Dream", "Yasnaya Polyana", "Little Prince"