Child Ticking - Aleksandra Kasuba

English
120 pages
ISBN ‏ 978-0595166718

15.24 × 0.76 × 22.86 cm (6 × ¼ × 9 inches)

The author, born on an estate in Lithuania to a family with deep rooted traditions and raised in the spirit of social change, describes the people, events and surroundings which formed her awareness of self. The memoir stops at age nine when, after a shattering experience, the child realizes that the core of her being will not survive without an outer shell.