Summary
Luca Kozina: You will see when you grow up
How to survive your own childhood?
Children's world is full of opposites; of simultaneous horror and delight, vulnerability and defiance, innocence and cruelty. Children's world is often like a post-apocalyptic playground where there are no rules, except to stay alive.
The family, which should be a place of safety and trust, is sometimes the place where we are dealt the most blows. The school and neighborhood often become the scene of horrifying peer violence. Left to themselves, girls and boys will then, as in Luca Kozina's stories, begin to view reality as a theatrical performance, become victims or bullies, fall into unhealthy relationships, underage pregnancies, depression.
With the collection of stories You'll see when you grow up Luca Kozina confronts us, telling from a child's perspective, with the violent and hypocritical society we live in, which closes its eyes to the problems of children and young people, even though it is constantly being talked about. about caring for them. Aware that in almost every childhood there is a hidden little hell to which the environment closes its eyes, Luca Kozina unpretentiously and convincingly exposes that hell, giving an authentic portrayal of children's helplessness, fear, but also hope. No matter how slight the cracks through which light can pass, the hope in these stories is palpable, and is hidden in unexpected tenderness, or friendship. And sometimes really save someone's life.
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