Who was Romulus Gaita, and why read this memoir? Especially not such modern real-world stuff. Highly recommended.

I will read it again and again.

After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Perhaps if he'd called them #1 and #2, with the hope for people that there would be a #7 and a #34.

how anyone can be so analytical and philosophical about such great tragedy and sorrow is beyond me. '...at another reading, young sex workers, none of them aged more than twenty, begged Gaita to repeat again and again the passages about his mother, not only seeing something of their own pain in her suffering, but understanding that her troubled life was being written about wiht a compassion that they themselves longed for".

After a moment, he explained: 'I mean there is love in this book. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. You see at once that the author is trying to manipulate you into conforming to his or her idea of what goodness is supposed to be, and after a short while you resent it.

Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Romulus, My Father at Amazon.com. I read this book straight through in one sitting. I started reading this book because my girlfriend from Chile was given it to read from one of her friends, presumably thinking it was a good literary work and representation of a part of Australia. There's a problem loading this menu right now. It's terribly sad, but strangely life affirming to think such a beautiful book could come from such sorrowful -- yet sometimes joyful -- love. Most books which are supposed to be about good people are rather nauseating. There are several other things that usually make me dislike these books. Gaita is up there with Ondaatje.

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Raimond Gaita, in his description of his father's outlook and the Australian bush, has emphasised the things that he sees as critical and let the rest just drop away. We’d love your help. I don't usually like biographies, but I did enjoy this one.

Literary Critic’s praise for Raimond Gaita’s novel ROMULUS, MY FATHER. This is a philosophical memoir of a complicated (albeit happy) childhood with deeply troubled parents. The boy rejects the idea that his father might seek another love. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. He and Raimond enjoy each other�s company deeply, yet both hunger for a contented family life with Christina. Through Raimond’s words, he offered me an opportunity to witness his childhood, the observations and interactions he had with his parents, family friends, and the wider relevance of immigrants assimilating into the Australian culture – something my own mother and grandparents did around the same time as Raimond’s. It's a complete mystery why Gaita's two Romulus books are so little read. SKU: 9781876485177 Categories: Biographies, Primary and Secondary. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The book is about migration, life and death, joy and illness, and the ethics of navigating contradictions and context. Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2014.

As my classmates read it they told me of how good it was and how interesting which are always strange comments from high school students.

It's terribly sad, but strangely life affirming to think suc. It also set the bar pretty high in my expectations of how this story would eventually pan out. Romulus Gaita's story is not unique but nonetheless tragic. Simple biography of the authors immigrant father. Thirty-four years after the publication of her dystopian classic, The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood returns to continue the story of Offred. There is no room for detail, for sharing the journey, rather the reader bears witness and connects through empathy. I don't know what happened, but there were no dragons, no magic, not even a ******* sword, and I still could not put in down. It is honest and unceremoniously spiritual, drawing from a deeper well of humanity than most things we will encounter in our day to day lives. Most books which are supposed to be about good people are rather nauseating. Thanks, Wayne, for directing me to it! The personalities where genuine and I appreciated that as they conveyed a real sense empathy in me throughout their struggles but I was often left with questions about their actions and their intentions. Such strong characters.. Refresh and try again. At the age of 13, Romulus fled his home in Yugoslavia. J.M Coetzee wrote that it is "one of those miraculous books that seems to come from outside and uses the author as its cipher". You finish some books and know that you’ve just read a ripper. Raimond Gaita writes an aching memoir about his life and his father's.

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Romolus sounds like a decent person, hard working, talented in his trade; honest to the point of bluntness, wanting to do what is right. "Long and boring" says my 16 year old who read it for English. I have since re-read it several times. It is honest and unceremoniously spiritual, drawing from a deeper well of humanity than most things we will encounter in our day to day lives. The Second World War destroyed or altered considerably the lives of a generation in Europe coming into adulthood at that time. So, I expected it to be quite another kind of book to what it turned out to be.

We talked... 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. ', Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2011.

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