Ancestors: Adventures in a Foreign Country: A Novel

Adventures in a Foreign Country. Graham Holderness tells the story of a typical modern intellectual, nearing the end of his career as an academic, a radical political activist and internationalist facing fundamental choices of how to live and where to belong. The focal figure is self-described as rootless, unanchored, a citizen of the world, but with no homeland of his own. Yet on his 60th birthday his son, with his interest in family history, gives him as a present a genealogical DNA test. From this modest intervention flow unforeseen consequences which ultimately turn his world upside down...