White Top - Dark Bottom

The world of childhood is primarily the closest ones: parents, grandmothers, grandfathers, their interests, their relationships, their stories and teachings. Understanding comes later, and at that time it is just listening in passing, amazement, bewilderment... These are also the mundane everyday things that are later recalled with nostalgia or rejection, but almost always with undying brightness.
This autobiographical, very sincere book describes Soviet childhood in detail, with characteristic and easily recognizable details. But what occupies M. Aromshtam above all else is "how adults were silent at that very time. How they had no strength to say anything about themselves. How they had no understanding of what had happened to them. How they had no language for that. How they wanted to forget everything that could be forgotten…". In their silence, the drama of our shared history is revealed, the continuation of which the author finds in his own life.