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Title: Childhood
Series:
(The Russians)
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Translator:
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Fiction
Pages: 135
Words: 41K
I gave Boyhood 3stars for a variety of reasons (mainly because I didn’t like the character as a teen) and so I was expecting to do the same for this volume. Thankfully, it was a bit nicer as he was still a child just entering the teen years so the hormonal urge to be a total jerk hadn’t manifested just yet.
The mother dying and the father being accused of not loving her were tough to read about. It would certainly have shaped a young man’s life to have those experiences happen to him.
It was also nice that this was only 135 pages so I didn’t have to wallow for hundreds of pages in despair. I don’t need that in my life right now :-)
★★★✬☆
From Bookstooge.blog
We explore the life of Nikolenka as a young boy living out in the country until his father takes him and his brother to Moscow. His mother dies back in the country and the family returns to bury her. The book ends where Boyhood starts up, with the family returning to Moscow.
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