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Curtains. Stories of Childhood
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781970342024
Publisher: M-Graphics Pub.
Published: Dec 12 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: Russian
Curtains is a collection of twenty-seven autobiographical stories that trace a boy's journey from his earliest memories to the threshold of adulthood. Set across the vast and changeable landscapes of Siberia, the book explores how a child comes to understand the world - not through explanations, but through small, piercing moments that leave their quiet imprint on the heart.
These stories unfold in kitchens and courtyards, schoolrooms and riverbanks, summer villages and hospital corridors - ordinary places that, in a child's eyes, blaze with mystery and meaning. A curtain lifting in the wind, a daring swim, a fleeting humiliation, a secret gift meant for a mother: each event becomes a turning point, revealing something essential about fear, loyalty, tenderness, courage, and the fragile beginnings of self-understanding.
As the narrator circles back to these memories in The Turn, the final story, the book transforms into a meditation on the inner architecture of a life - how we are shaped by what we remember, and by what we cannot forget.
Luminous, introspective, and quietly philosophical, Curtains invites readers to rediscover their own childhood moments: those brief flashes of clarity that stay with us long after their circumstances fade.
Шторы - это цикл из двадцати семи автобиографических рассказов, прослеживающих путь мальчика от самых ранних воспоминаний до порога взрослой жизни. События происходят в Сибири в пятидесятых и шестидесятых годах ХХ века. Автор переносит читателя во времена своего детства и позволяет увидеть происходящее глазами своего героя через короткие, но яркие события, которые оставляют глубокий след в его душе и формируют отношение к миру.
В каждом эпизоде своя интрига, свой жизненный урок, и в последних фразах каждого рассказа происходит переоценка бытия, своего рода эпилог. Мир таков, каким мы его себя представляем. Но ребенок видит его совершенно иначе, чем человек взрослый.И главное отличие - это полное отсутствие цинизма, искренняя вера в добро и справедливость. И это не черно-бело
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