The Guest Boy: A Memoir of War, Trauma, and Childhood
For all children. I wish they grow up in a world full of peace, tranquility and love. Childhood is said to be the most beautiful years of life. I remember that this is how Leon Trotsky began one of his books. (2022). It must be a true statement; if we think of human life as a whole, the first years of our lives are as irresponsible, free, and loving as possible. Is it only “irresponsible” or “sheltered” that makes our childhood so powerful? For example, are there not children who grow up alone or without a family? Don’t children who are unprotected or irresponsible, who, for example, start selling chewing gum or polishing shoes at an early age, or who have to work in the car industry in filth and rust, remember those years with similarly intense feelings, sometimes with tears in their eyes? How well this applies, for example, to the great writer Maksim Gorky (2014) … In my opinion, there must be other things that make that period of one’s childhood special. Things r...