Featured Title: Romulus, My Father
by Raimond Gaita and Read by Humphrey Bower
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Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but 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. Winner of the 1998 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
Romulus, My Father 
Author Information:
Raimond Gaita was born in Germany in 1946. He is Professor of Moral Philosophy, King’s College, University of London and Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. His books include Romulus, My Father, The Philosopher's Dog, A Common Humanity, and Why the War was Wrong (as editor and contributor).
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