The Antipodeans

By Greg McGee

Beginning with the return to Venice of an old and sick man determined to confront his past, and accompanied by his daughter who is escaping hers, The Antipodeans spans three generations of a New Zealand family and their interaction with three families of Northern Italy. From Venice to the South Island of New Zealand, from the assassination of a Gestapo commander in the last days of Italian resistance in WWII to contemporary real estate shenanigans in Auckland, from political assassination in the darkest days of the Red Brigade to the vaulting cosmology of particle physics, The Antipodeans is a novel of epic proportions where families from the opposite ends of the earth discover an intergenerational legacy of love and blood and betrayal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Upstart Press
• Release date: Jul 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781927262474

Greg McGee

Greg McGee originally came to literary attention when he wrote the iconic NZ play Foreskin’s Lament. Since then he has had a successful career writing for television, but again broke into the literary consciousness as Alix Bosco winning the inaugural Ngaio Marsh award for crime writing. He also wrote the record-breaking Richie McCaw: The Open Side. The Antipodeans stayed on the NZ fiction bestseller list for months and has been published in the UK.