In the Circle of Family

For every child, the Christmas tree smells different. The candles shimmer differently on Easter night or a festive bonfire in May's twilight. The green canopies whisper about their secrets on the first day of summer, when there are whole holidays ahead. And no one can cook delicious food "like at home" quite like no one anywhere else. Even if they don't try. Only in childhood can you wait for the holiday like that and rejoice so much, feel so bitterly offended and so generously forgive. Also, only in childhood can a mother's hands drive away any pain, a father will always catch you when you fall, and a grandmother knows everything in the world and probably just a little more. The book includes stories by A. P. Chekhov, Arkady Averchenko, Sasha Black, Teffi, Marina Tsvetaeva, and other wonderful writers of the 19th–20th centuries about family traditions and holidays, about home and parents — through the eyes of a child.