This novella, published in 1983, is about happy and carefree school years.
Carefree??? How easy it is for adults to say!
Once there was a close-knit family: grandmother, mother, Dima—and… a cat, their shared favorite. Everything in their family ran steadily and smoothly.
Mom worked as a journalist at a newspaper office, Dima went to school and studied, more or less, well. Grandmother managed the household, though there was trouble with dad—he left them.
But one day everything became different, and the measured life ended, giving way to new, unexpected events for Dima.
One day, Mom met a man whom she fell in love with. From that moment on, everything went differently, of course. And ahead were summer holidays—and just think how much had changed in everyone’s lives during that time… and it was completely unexpected for Dima…