“The Happy Carousel of Childhood” is a surprisingly bright and joyful book. But light and joy often appear through the sadness and tears of the main character. Together with a boy from an intelligent Leningrad family, we discover “our” world of the seventies and eighties and find ourselves in a variety of tragicomic situations: a meeting with peers from Sweden, the harsh educational drill of a grandfather-teacher, a conflict in a women’s bathhouse, the death of a close friend and much more. These stories will not leave anyone indifferent.