Antipodeans

the long version

"An ailing New Zealander returns to Venice, determined to confront his past. He's accompanied by his daughter who is escaping hers. The antipodeans spans three generations of New Zealand and Italian families, from Venice to the South Island of New Zealand, from the assassination of a Gestapo commander in the last days of Italian resistance during World War II, 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"--Back cover.