Mother Tongue

✍ Scribed by Romanov, Tania

• Book ID: 109801588
• Publisher: Travelers' Tales
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781609521271

✦ Synopsis

What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov's story.

Mother Tongue is an exploration of lives lived in the chaos of a part of the world known as the Balkans. It follows the lives of three generations of women—Katarina, Zora, and Tania—over the last 100 years. It follows countries that dissolved, formed, and reformed. Lands that were conquered and subjugated by Fascists and Nazis and nationalists. Lives lived in exile, in refugee camps, in new worlds.

What language did you speak with your mother? What language did you speak with your father? What language did you speak with your brother? For Tania Romanov there are three different answers to those questions.

Did you speak your mother tongue with anyone except your mother? That is the most bizarre question of all. But for Tania Romanov, the answer is no. She spoke a unique language with her mother, one in which she is still fluent....
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