Everything described in this book is a complete and absolute fantasy.” — R. Zlotnikov. As if! The author takes us into the days of his youth, filled with music, sports, love, and plans for a bright future—so in the book, truth turns out to be more than what the first lines promise. The respected writer refuses the costly course of “emotional recovery,” realizing that he doesn’t have long left. Behind him is a successful life—and ahead waits uncertainty. But the hero, who had seemingly closed his eyes forever, opens them in the seventies and quickly understands that he is four years old.
How to become big and strong again, to fully use the knowledge of an adult man? Does he really have to grow up from scratch—but now look at the world with a mature, experienced perspective? Looks like that’s the case… And ahead are the first friends and people who envy him, love and aspirations, sporting achievements, and the main philosophical question of the time-shifted world: “Do we need to change anything?”