The Antipodeans
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Eye Books
Published:1st Feb '18
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Three generations, two continents, one forgotten secret
LONGLISTED: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
2014: Clare and her father travel to Venice from New Zealand. She is fleeing a broken marriage; he is in failing health and wants to return one last time to the place where, as a young man, he spent happy years as a rugby player and coach. While exploring the city, Clare discovers there is more to her father's motives for returning than she realised, and time may be running out for him to put old demons to rest.
1942: Joe and Harry, two Kiwi POWs in Italy, manage to escape their captors, largely due to the help of a sympathetic Italian family show shelter them on their farm. Soon they are fighting alongside the partisans in the mountains, but both men have formed a bond with Donatella, the daughter of the family – a bond that will have dramatic repercussions decades later.
The Antipodeans is a novel of epic proportions in which families from opposite ends of the earth discover a legacy of love, blood and betrayal.
“The Antipodeans is a gripping, skilfully constructed novel that knows more than any single novel has a right to know about the hazards of both love and war, loyalty and betrayal, Italian politics over the past eighty years and, oh yes, rugby” -- Charles Lambert, author of The Children’s Home
“Like a Venetian Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, The Antipodeans lifts the lid on the violent, messy recent history of a part of Europe which is now a tourist mecca and tells a rich, intense story of decades-old wrongs of the heart. It does it with such humanity, you won’t want to put it down” -- Simon Edge, author of The Hopkins Conundrum
“A truly engrossing and superbly woven tale, The Antipodeans is a spellbinding read. Bravissimo!” -- Ian Thornton, author of The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms
“A truly engrossing and superbly woven tale, The Antipodeans is a spellbinding read. Bravissimo!” - Ian Thornton, author of The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms || “Like a Venetian Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, The Antipodeans lifts the lid on the violent, messy recent history of a part of Europe which is now a tourist mecca and tells a rich, intense story of decades-old wrongs of the heart. It does it with such humanity, you won’t want to put it down” - Simon Edge, author of The Hopkins Conundrum || “The Antipodeans is a gripping, skilfully constructed novel that knows more than any single novel has a right to know about the hazards of both love and war, loyalty and betrayal, Italian politics over the past eighty years and, oh yes, rugby” - Charles Lambert, author of The Children’s Home
“A truly engrossing and superbly woven tale, The Antipodeans is a spellbinding read. Bravissimo!” - Ian Thornton, author of The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms || “Like a Venetian Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, The Antipodeans lifts the lid on the violent, messy recent history of a part of Europe which is now a tourist mecca and tells a rich, intense story of decades-old wrongs of the heart. It does it with such humanity, you won’t want to put it down” - Simon Edge, author of The Hopkins Conundrum || “The Antipodeans is a gripping, skilfully constructed novel that knows more than any single novel has a right to know about the hazards of both love and war, loyalty and betrayal, Italian politics over the past eighty years and, oh yes, rugby” - Charles Lambert, author of The Children’s Home
ISBN: 9781785630583
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 32mm
Weight: 300g
448 pages