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Author Amochaev, Tania Romanov, 1949- author.

Title Mother tongue : a saga of three generations of Balkan women / Tania Romanov
Edition First edition
Published Palo Alto : Travelers' Tales, An imprint of Solas House, Inc., 2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, map
Contents Going home -- Part I. Katarina -- The baby who wouldn't wait -- Surviving the war -- Balkanization -- Post War crises -- Finding another way -- Starting over -- Haven in Yugoslavia -- World War II -- Zora finds her way -- Visiting their homeland -- Medulin farewell -- Losing Katarina -- Part II. Zora -- A best friend's wedding -- Meeting Tolya -- Belgrade and marriage -- The golden child -- Cold War threatens -- Tania born to crisis -- Exiled again -- Campo San Sabba -- Campo family -- Sasha in Italian hospital -- Zora's ultimatum -- Babusya's last stand -- Leaving Zhenya -- The SS Constitution -- San Francisco, home -- Speak Serbian, Tania -- The Greg -- Losing Tolya -- Taking Zora to Medulin -- Finding cousin Milan -- Visitors from America -- Zora learns her real name -- San Sabba secrets -- Epilogue
Summary The unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian women-Katarina, Zora, Tania-to flee their homelands multiple times. Eventually Tania, a successfully integrated American, journeys back to her fractured homeland with her mother to unravel the secrets of their shared past
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 25, 2019)
Subject Amochaev, Tania Romanov, 1949-
Amochaev, Tania Romanov, 1949- -- Family
Mothers and daughters -- Yugoslavia -- Biography
Mothers and daughters -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
Immigrants -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography
Refugees -- Yugoslavia -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Emigration and immigration
Families
Immigrants
Mothers and daughters
Refugees
SUBJECT Yugoslavia -- Emigration and immigration
Yugoslavia -- Biography
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography
Subject California -- San Francisco
Yugoslavia
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017057379
ISBN 9781609521288
1609521285