Famous writer Tatyana Shiposhina worked for many years as a children’s doctor. The book “Lamp Without a Shade” tells how a fifth-grader, Sanya Kovalyov, unexpectedly ends up in a hospital’s surgical department. Sanya has appendicitis—so inconvenient for an important football competition!
For Sanya, the hospital is a new, unknown world. The boy meets the neighbors in his ward—but most importantly, he meets a kind and good doctor, Alexander Ivanovich. From him our hero learns many interesting, important things that stir the imagination. Sanya becomes convinced that doctors are the kind of people in whose hands a person’s life can rest—and suddenly makes an important decision for himself.