The year is 1938. In a cabin on M/S Kungsholm, a boy lies reading One Thousand and One Nights. He is eleven years, one month and sixteen days old. The boat rises slowly. He is on his way to America. He never wants to return to the old country. "Nevermore." The boy is Jan Myrdal. Together with his sisters and his famous parents Alva and Gunnar, he is going to New York. Gunnar is to lead a large investigation to solve the negro problem. In his new book "Another World" - which is a direct continuation of the acclaimed "Childhood" (1982) - Jan Myrdal gives a completely unique insight into the life of an eleven-year-old: his reading, his mechano- and model-building, his fantasies, his awakening sexuality, his nascent awareness of the world, of the approaching war. Extremely open and with the perspective of an eleven-year-old, he talks about his upbringing as the "problem child" of his famous parents. He has an almost hallucinatory ability to see things and phenomena as the eleven-year-old saw them. It is a magnificent depiction of childhood that he has achieved.