Author(s): Chris Brausch

NZ Fiction

Description: In a patch of gorse in the South Island, a man and his son fight for their lives, hunted down by the Emperor's forces for daring to be free. Far to the South, a rogue warlord and his cronies simmer in rebellion. Alone on an island to the east, an old man watches the stars and keeps track of mankind's destiny. For the antipodean isles, a millennium of cultivator oppression may face its biggest challenge yet.

Review: "A declaration of war on behalf of the wild" ; "Traumatic, brutal, dark and twisted, but above all daringly sensitive and optimistic" ; "He writes so raw and honest the bush comes alive"