Childhood is the first of a trilogy of autobiographical novels based on the experience of Soviet writer Maxim Gorky (the other two are On Earth and My University).

This work tells the story of Aleksa (Gorky's real name)' s childhood from the age of three to ten, vividly reproduces the living conditions of the Russian lower class in the 1970s and 1980s 19, and writes Gorky's understanding of suffering and unique views on social life, with endless vision and strength between the lines.

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When Alesha was three years old, he lost his father, and his mother varvara gave him to his grandfather Kashlin for foster care. My grandfather lives in the town of Novogo Road, Niger. When my grandfather was young, he was a tracker. Later, he opened a dyehouse and became a small business owner. When Aletha came to grandpa's house, grandpa's manor had begun to decline, and grandpa became more bossy and irritable because of the depression of the manor.

Aletha's two uncles, Mikhail and Yakov, kept quarreling and fighting to separate and embezzle Aletha's mother's dowry. In this family, alessa saw the fog of hatred between people, and even the children were poisoned by this atmosphere. As soon as Alisha entered grandpa's house, she disliked him, was afraid of him and felt the hostility in his eyes.

One day, out of curiosity, with the encouragement of his cousin, he threw a white tablecloth into the dye vat and dyed it blue. As a result, my grandfather knocked me out and gave birth to a serious illness. From then on, Aletha began to observe the people around him with anxiety, feeling unbearable humiliation and pain for himself and others.

His mother abandoned him and left home because she couldn't stand such a life. But in this dirty environment, there is another kind of person, another kind of life. There are optimistic, simple little Zokan and upright old worker Gregory.