GIVE ME A TICKET TO CHILDHOOD is the story of a man looking back on his life. As we learn of the small miracles and tragedies that made up the narrator’s life --- the misadventures and the misdeeds --- we meet his long-lost friends, none of whom can forget how rich their lives once were. And even if Nguyen Nhat Anh can’t take us back to our own childhoods, he captures those innocent times with a great deftness.

The best selling book in the history of modern Vietnam, GIVE ME A TICKET TO CHILDHOOD has been nothing short of a sensation in its home country. The story of a man looking back on his life, GIVE ME A TICKET TO CHILDHOOD captures the texture of childhood in all of its richness. As we learn of the small miracles and tragedies that made up the narrator’s life --- the misadventures and the misdeeds --- we meet his long-lost friends, none of whom can forget how rich their lives once were.