Alexandra Ershanskaya: Things from my childhood

Sasha Ershanskaya lives sixty years ago, in another century and even in another country. A whole era separates us from Sasha. But, despite this, in some ways Sasha and I are very similar. We all wanted to be good and gave way to grandmothers on the bus, periodically confusing the age of grandmothers and giving way to thirty-year-old girls. We all loved to ride bikes and sometimes we fell off them. Many of us have our own amazing story about how we finally fell in love with reading books. And, of course, we all had our first love, the first fight and the first sorrow in our lives.

But the objects around us were completely different. Who now knows what a gang is and why a kerosene stove is needed? Today we do not leave the house without a mobile phone, and our grandparents had coins on a string to call from a pay phone. We can type a hundred characters a minute on a computer, but they had to write beautifully and without blots with a fountain pen.

Alexandra Ershanskaya's book "Things of My Childhood" is an opportunity to look into another time, into another era and better understand the people who lived there, and thanks to this, perhaps, better understand ourselves.

More about the book on our blog

Author: Alexandra Ershanskaya

Illustrations: Varvara Polyakova

Pages: 80 (offset). Hard cover

Dimensions: 210x205x10 mm