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*Eto pervaya kniga pisatelya, ego povest' o sobstvennoy zhizni. Ranee rasskazy Yuriya Shapki publikovalis' v zhurnalah. Nachinaetsya povestvovanie s opisaniya rodnyh, uvidennyh s obnazhayuschey siloy detskogo vzglyada. Cherez vsyu knigu prohodyat chetyre pokoleniya odnoy sem'i, ohvativshie vek XX i vstupivshie v vek nyneshniy. Sredi istoriy detstva - smeshnye i trogatel'nye epizody, svyazannye s roditelyami, s babushkoy i dedushkoy, scenki, opisyvayuschie vlyublennost' pyatiletnego mal'chika v devicu legkogo povedeniya. Sredi istoriy vzroslogo vozrasta - puteshestviya avtora-geologa v dal'nih krayah, sredi yakutov i chukchey. Teplyy lyubyaschiy vzglyad schastlivogo cheloveka sochetaetsya u avtora s zhivoy ironiey.