{"product_id":"romulus-my-father-by-raimond-gaita","title":"'Romulus, My Father' by Raimond Gaita","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"655\"\u003eThis is one of those Australian books that looks plain until it cuts you.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"655\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"311\"\u003eRomulus, My Father\u003c\/em\u003e is Raimond Gaita’s memoir of his childhood in rural Victoria, shaped by his father Romulus: a Romanian migrant, blacksmith, labourer, moral absolutist, and wounded, loving, difficult man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"655\"\u003eAround him orbit the child Raimond, his troubled mother Christina, and a small world of migrants, farmers, friends, grief, loyalty, and ordinary cruelties.  Gaita writes with extraordinary restraint about love, mental illness, migration, poverty, landscape, and moral inheritance — not as grand ideas, but as things lived in kitchens, paddocks, hospitals, workshops, silences. A good one for readers of memoir, Australian literature, migrant stories, and books about fathers that do not ask to be forgiven cheaply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1114\" data-end=\"1260\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eText Publishing paperback, 1998 reprint. Good reading copy, with light cover wear, page toning, and minor edge wear. Clean internally.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44972302499923,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-31T145616.929.png?v=1780203391","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/romulus-my-father-by-raimond-gaita","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}