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

'Enthralling.a tale of madness, suicide, affliction and betrayal. a rare and passionate book, the like of which has seldom been seen in Australia.'
Sydney Morning Herald

"Extraordinary and beautiful, a profound meditation on love and death, madness and truth, judgment and compassion."  Richard Flanagan, Sunday Age

"Consistenly astounding.one of the most remarkable works of autobiography I have read for years, a memoir of absolutely compelling tragi-comic quality." Peter Craven, The Australian

"A story... with the simplicity of myth and the force of tragedy... I know of no other book where the love between father and son has been more beautifully expressed.' Robert Manne, Australian Book Review