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Romulus. My Father
Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age
of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christine
and their four-year-old son soon after the end of World War II.
Tragic events were to overtake them. Raimond Gaita has an
extraordinary story to tell about growing up with his father amid
the stony paddocks and flowing grasses of country Australia.
Written simply and movingly, Romulus, My Father is about how
a compassionate and honest man taught his son the meaning of living
a decent life. It is about passion, betrayal and madness, about
friendship and the joy and dignity of work, about character and
fate, affliction and spirituality. No one will read this wonderful
book without an enhanced sense of the possibilities of being
alive.
'Consistently astounding... one of the most remarkable works of
autobiography I have read for years, a memoir of absolutely
compelling tragi-comic quality.'
Peter Craven, Australian