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Catton Eleanor - Birnam Wood A Novel - Paperback
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Description: International Bestseller A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review NPR The New Yorker The Washington Post The Atlantic Time Financial Times Slate The Chicago Public Library Kirkus The Telegraph A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick" A savagely satirical thriller." - People The Booker Prize - winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive. Birnam Wood is on the move A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island cutting o? the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood an undeclared 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. To occupy the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last. But the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine also has an interest in the place: he has snatched it up to build his end - times bunker or so he tells Birnam's founder Mira when he catches her on the property. He's intrigued by Mira and by Birnam Wood; although they're poles apart politically it seems Lemoine and the group might have enemies in common. But can Birnam trust him? And as their ideals and ideologies are tested can they trust one another? A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize - winning author of The Luminaries Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its drama Austenian in its wit and like both influences fascinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed study of intentions actions and consequences it is a mesmerizing unflinching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
Title: Birnam Wood A Novel
Author(s): Catton Eleanor
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250321718
Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/5/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: International Bestseller A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review NPR The New Yorker The Washington Post The Atlantic Time Financial Times Slate The Chicago Public Library Kirkus The Telegraph A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick" A savagely satirical thriller." - People The Booker Prize - winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive. Birnam Wood is on the move A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island cutting o? the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood an undeclared 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. To occupy the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last. But the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine also has an interest in the place: he has snatched it up to build his end - times bunker or so he tells Birnam's founder Mira when he catches her on the property. He's intrigued by Mira and by Birnam Wood; although they're poles apart politically it seems Lemoine and the group might have enemies in common. But can Birnam trust him? And as their ideals and ideologies are tested can they trust one another? A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize - winning author of The Luminaries Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its drama Austenian in its wit and like both influences fascinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed study of intentions actions and consequences it is a mesmerizing unflinching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
Title: Birnam Wood A Novel
Author(s): Catton Eleanor
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250321718
Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/5/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
