About the book: 2021 / “All adults were once children, but not all of them remember this,” wrote Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. “Half a Childhood” is a collection of bright, exciting stories addressed to the child living inside us. A mischievous childhood in a military town in a foreign country, first friends and first loves, the life of a Soviet family in the mid-seventies through the eyes of a little boy and an adult man many years later. The author of the collection was lucky to preserve these memories and choose the right words to share them with others.