Ticket to Childhood

The Vietnamese bestseller translated into English for the first time, Ticket to Childhood is a sly and lovely story about what we lose when we grow up, and brings to life the impossible gap between youth and adulthood. As we learn of the small miracles and tragedies that made up the narrator's life [...]
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The Vietnamese bestseller translated into English for the first time, Ticket to Childhood is a sly and lovely story about what we lose when we grow up, and brings to life the impossible gap between youth and adulthood. As we learn of the small miracles and tragedies that made up the narrator's life as an eight year old, we encounter childhood in all its richness-the misdeeds, the misadventures, and the mountains of inspiration. Whether the narrator and his friends are putting their elders on trial (without them noticing) or creating a new, private language that confuses and infuriates their teacher, they travel through life with a sense of innocence and adventure. Nguyen Nhat Anh captures those free, open-ended times with great deftness and poignancy. Even if he can't transport us back to our own past, Ticket to Childhood gives us the next best thing.