Mother Tongue

A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women

Tania Romanov

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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. ‘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.