The novella In the Name of the Father is a probe into the life of a man of retirement age and his complicated family relationships. He is a man who is irresponsible and selfish with sadistic inclinations, the father of two adult sons who once was a son himself and is now telling his story. He has failed as a father and in his own narration he tries to ascertain the reasons. But he seeks the reason for failure mainly in other members of the family, not in himself. The impulse to narrate the story is for him the sale of the house where he lived with his own family and which his mysterious brother built. The man’s youngest son wants to get rid of the house, because the meaning of life which living in this house should have offered the family never actually existed. In the novel the author attempts to express his own view on the need or lack of need of a family as the basic cell of society, when reality compels mutually indifferent individuals to live together. The book won the prestigious Anasoft Litera Prize in 2012.