Romulus My Father Text Classics

• The Text Classics edition of the hugely beloved Australian classic Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita • Text’s original edition of Romulus, My Father sold over 150,000 copies in print and eBook • Adapted to film in 2007, winning Best Film and Best Actor for Eric Bana at the 2008 AFIs • Gaita tells the story of his father fleeing his native Yugoslavia at the age of 13, coming to Australia with his young wife and the infant Raimond—a memoir about a man who in the face of tragedy and hardship taught his son about the meaning of living a decent life • Raimond Gaita is a public intellectual, an Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London, and Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Arts • This Text Classics edition will be introduced by Walkley Award-winning journalist Anne Manne—wife of Robert Manne, who initially encouraged Gaita to expand the eulogy he gave at his father’s funeral into this memoir