This book is arranged unusually: it is a changeling. On both sides, under different covers, there are two very different stories by the popular British writer Anne Fine. As if two completely different people wrote essays on the topic «How I grew up.»
This book is arranged unusually: it is a changeling. On both sides, under different covers, there are two very different stories by the popular British writer Anne Fine. As if two completely different people wrote essays on the topic «How I grew up.» Tortured Babies is the story of an entire class of troubled teenagers completing an unusual task. For three weeks, they have to take care of rag babies stuffed with flour as if they were real children, and even keep a diary. This strange pedagogical experiment (here we can recall both the Tamagotchi and the computer game The Sims) will lead to unexpected results: the guys, who are not at all prone to reflection, will think about themselves, their parents, about responsibility, about their relationships with other people. The second story, «The List of Sins,» is about twins, brother and sister, who grew up together and were always inseparable, but with the approach of adolescence, everything changed — after all, girls mature earlier than boys. The brother, on behalf of whom the story is being told, is painfully worried that his sister has her own secrets, but in the meantime he himself is getting older.
SCOOTER, 264 p.
Daria Rybina