Fredrik Buckman What My Son Should Know About How This World Works is a poignant new book from the bestselling author of The Second Life of Uwe.
Buckman defines the genre of this book as «extended blog» — it really resembles an online diary or a series of LiveJournal posts. Addressing his little son, the author discusses a wide variety of subjects — from football to Ikea, from computer games to the categories of good and evil. And along the way he shares his first, sometimes comical, experience of fatherhood — with that unique purely Bakman’s mixture of irony and tenderness, which brought him the love of millions of readers.
This is not only a conversation on equal terms with a tiny creature that has yet to become a person, but also an honest conversation with oneself, an attempt to comprehend one’s responsibility for what is happening in the world.
Quote:
«Please forgive me.
For everything that I will accomplish in the next eighteen years.
For everything I miss. For everything I don’t understand. For all the calls to the school, about which you will try not to tell me …
For all the times when you will be ashamed of me. For all the girls whom you dare not invite to dinner with us …
For all my «And I warned you and your mom!». For sticking five to your buddies.
For buying a minivan.
For a cowboy hat. That I will go in shorts …
For the T-shirt «A REAL MAN WEIGHS 90+».
For the ridiculous speech I gave at your prom …
As you get older, you will realize that while you were growing up, I made a lot of mistakes. I know it. I have resigned myself to this. But I want you to know: I tried very, very hard.
He gave all the best to the last.
Googled to hell in my eyes …
This book is for you. »
Read by: Kirill Radzig
Translator: Ekaterina Chevkina
© Fredrik Backman 2012
© Edition in Russian, translation into Russian, design. Sinbad Publishing House, 2019.
The recording was made by the production center «Vimbo»
© & ℗ «Vimbo» Production Center, 2019
Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail Litvakov
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