About the book: 2022 / In this story, the writer talks about his childhood, similar to the childhood of millions of his peers, which passed in dilapidated pre-war huts where working-class families lived. There were “birdhouse” toilets in the courtyards, and it was so sweet to steal sour apples from neighbors’ orchards. Oh, how familiar it is, how similar! But the child - the main character - is different in one way: the slow, gradual realization that he is different, for some reason not like all his peers.