Early Sorrows

Early Sorrows: For Children and Sensitive Readers (Serbo-Croatian: Rani jadi:za decu i osetljive / Рани јади:за децу и осетљиве) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Yugoslav author Danilo Kiš written in 1970.

The book is second in what Kiš called a "family cycle"; the first in that cycle was the novel Garden, Ashes (1965), and the last the novel Hourglass.