About the book: 2003 / This book is not for exemplary children. Exemplary children will not learn anything from my memories. It's not worth trying. But pranksters are a completely different matter. Pranksters will find in this incredible story a lot of instructive things, a lot of valuable thoughts, and most importantly, deep understanding and sympathy for their difficult lot. I almost wrote: an abyss of understanding and sympathy, but I realized in time that it would sound like a phrase from the preface to a children's book. And my amazing adventures are true, like the truth, the most real.