Любко Дереш "Намiр!" (Роман)
Do you remember Petya Pyatochkin? Lubko Deresh's book is not about a famous cartoon character. It's much more serious than that. One day Petya, a teenager, was carried up a tree. Sitting there, Petya saw such and such... It was this "such" that made his unremarkable memory phenomenal. Why sit for long periods of time over textbooks - just look through a couple of paragraphs - and Petya remembered everything! Petya tells no one about his new ability. Why should he? After all, it's so convenient...But one day he discovers bitterly that he is cooler than all his friends. All of them - primitive and vulgar. So soon Petya has to protect a girl from his school, whom his friends have caught and dragged into the toilet in order to fondle her. Petya becomes a loner, living and studying on his own. School graduates with a medal, the girls really like him, but...