About the Book: My Sons Father : An Autobiography
The first in DOM Moraes trilogy of autobiographies, My sons father is a coming
of age account of growing up in Bombay and oxbridge of the 1950s, by a man who
has been called the poet of his generation.Dom Moraes childhood in Bombay was as
privileged as it was Lonely peopled by his father frequent absences. As he says
in the opening lines, 'missing My father is my First real memory of him. It was
also a time of conflicted emotions and, frequently, terror. As Moraes beautiful
mother, Beryl, sank gradually from neurosis to madness, she