Croatia: Beneath the Surface
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It was the spring of 2014. My brother Sasha and I were spending a month roaming around the beautiful peninsula of Istria, in Croatia, where our mother was born.
Friends at home in San Francisco raved about Croatia as a tourist destination. For me, Croatia was the place of disasters that started long before I was born, swept me and my family up, and caused our expulsion—which had continued until just a few years earlier. Could the tide have turned? I wanted to know. I wanted to go beneath the surface to learn what was happening in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, with which my family had such deep roots.
This is the story of our time in Croatia, of conversations with and unique insights gained from interactions with the locals.
Not everything, we learned, was quite as it seemed.
Tania Romanov
Tania Romanov Amochaev was born in Belgrade, Serbia of two displaced émigrés ― a Russian father and a Croatian mother ― and spent her childhood in San Sabba, a refugee camp in Trieste, Italy. After arriving in America on the SS Constitution in 1954, Amochaev grew up in San Francisco, California and earned a degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. She then forged a successful business career, serving as CEO of three technology companies, earning an MS in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and receiving an honorary PhD from Saint Catherine University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Amochaev is a founder of the Healdsburg Literary Guild in California and the educational non-profit Public School Success Team, which mobilizes community volunteers to reduce public high school dropout rates. She has climbed Mount Whitney and Mount Kenya, circumnavigated Annapurna, trekked through Bhutan and Kashmir, and sailed along remote rivers in Burma (Myanmar). She lives in San Francisco, but spends several months each year traveling the world. Learn more about Tania and follow her blog at taniaromanov.com
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Croatia - Tania Romanov
Croatia: Beneath the Surface
Travels with Tania: Book 2
By Tania Romanov
Published by Solificatio
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Copyright 2018 Tania Romanov Amochaev
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What people are saying about Tania Romanov’s debut book
Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
The Balkans are a tangle many of us tend to gloss over because we can’t get inside it. Tania Romanov takes us inside it.
—Tamim Ansary, author of West of Kabul, East of New York
As she digs deeper, painful truths are revealed, truths that lead her back to the refugee camps of her infancy.
—Linda Watanabe McFerrin, author of Namako, The Hand of Buddha, and Dead Love
"I devoured Tania Romanov’s Mother Tongue and wish I had read it before going to Croatia." —Susan Cornelis, author of Conversations with the Muse: The Art Journal as Inner Guide
"This is a novel of historical and cultural significance. It does a service to every emigrant, to all the displaced persons out there, to the current refugee crisis, by affirming