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Synopsis
To some extent the book is an attempt to come to grips with the chaos of the present through an examination of the formative past... CHILDHOOD is in most ways a rare treat and is a worthy addition to the Glas series.The Moscow Times In this collection, centred on the theme of childhood we offer:Two early stories by Andrei Bitov which reflect the growing awareness in children of life's mystery and beauty; a story by Andrei Platonov, bearing the stamp of his inimitable style, more fully developed in The Foundation Pit; Ludmilla Ulitskaya's perspicacious story of the complex relationship between twin sisters; an impressionistic story by Zufar Gareev about the torments of adolescence; Leonid Latynin's epic, set in pre-Christian Russia and giving us a glimpse of the dawn of Russian civilisation; Alan Cherchesov's account of an unusually bright Chechen boy living alone in a highland village in the Caucasus; a story by Anatoly Pristavkin about childhood in the special orphanages for children of "enemies of the people"; and the Booker winners Andrei Sergeev and Sergei Gandlevsky, also devoted to the theme of childhood
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