Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias is a classic of world literature of the 20th century, Nobel Prize laureate. The story “Young Owner of Treasures” is an excellent example of “magical realism” for which the literature of South and Central America has become famous, a masterpiece of poetic prose in which fantasy and fairy-tale motifs, dream and reality, life and death are elegantly intertwined. A boy spends time in an abandoned gallery, which in his imagination is transformed into wonderful playgrounds - a pirate ship or a circus arena... Only an inquisitive child's eye, examining the walls, floor, ceiling, can see in the old gallery a cabinet full of treasures belonging to the family of the Owners...