My Childhood

Amzing Book must buy.

Read it.I'm loving it.

Good enough.

Well written, great to learn from about a totally different way of life

You had to fee. Sorry for this child and others who were brought p this way in this draft. Very disfunction all families eeki get out an existence due to POVERTY. Having a little education was a benefit. God plays a major role in their everyday lives and was their foundation of strength and hope.

What a wonderful book. I am now reading every book he wrote. No comparison to today's writers!

I want to endorse the Amazon reviews that I have just read of this book - it is a marvellous work of literature, though the translation that I read on my kindle was sometimes disappointing and frustrating (and the multiple ways in which Russians refer to the same person can be confusing). But there is something else that has not been mentioned in the reviews I read - there are quite a few times when the God of compassion breaks through - in the humanity and love of the grandmother and (even more so) in Gorki's own compassion for people whom others shun.

This is a wonderful account of life through a child's perspective; of a culture and life long past, full of observations about humanity, survival and the values of that time.