Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

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epub | 679.08 KB | English | Isbn:9780771024375 | Author: Eleanor Catton | Year: 2023

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INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Shortlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2023 Kirkus Prize
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, Financial Times, the Globe and Mail, The Atlantic, NPR, CBC Books, the Washington Post, Slate, The Telegraph, People, Amazon, Indigo, and Apple iBooks Canada
One of Barack Obama's 2023 Summer Reading List titles
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries comes an electrifying thriller grounded in a provocative and sly exploration of some of the most pressing issues of our times.
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster has created an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice.
For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira, Birnam Wood's founder, stumbles on an answer: occupying the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. The enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker, or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira and Birnam Wood, he makes them an offer that would set them up for the long term. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust one another?
Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both influences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. It is an unflinching look at the surprising consequences of even our most well-intended actions, and an enthralling consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

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