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Catton, Eleanor,
1985-
Birnam Wood: a Novel
[Libby].
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2023.
Political.
Macbeth.
Anarchism.
resistance.
Gardening.
Shakespeare.
privacy.
Tense.
suspense.
drones.
guerrilla.
Thriller.
award winning.
collective.
Jane Austen.
spying.
climate.
billionaire.
New Zealand.
Booker Prize.
man booker.
mutual aid.
taut.
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Fiction.
Literature.
Thriller.
HTML:<p><b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER</b><br /> <b>A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick<br /> "<i>Birnam Wood</i> is terrific. As a multilayered, character-driven thriller, it's as good as it gets. Ruth Rendell would have loved it. A beautifully textured work—what a treat." —Stephen King<br /></b><br /> <b>"A generational cri de coeur . . . A sophisticated page-turner . . . <i>Birnam Wood</i> nearly made me laugh with pleasure. The whole thing crackles . . . Greta Gerwig could film this novel, but so could Quentin Tarantino."</b> <b>—Dwight Garner, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br /> <b>The Booker Prize–winning author of <i>The Luminaries</i> brings us</b> <b><i>Birnam Wood</i>, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleido</b><b>scopic insight into what drives us to survive.</b><br /> <i><br /> Birnam Wood is on the move . . .<br /></i><br /> 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 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.<br /> 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?<br /> A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize–winning author of <i>The Luminaries</i>, Eleanor Catton's <i>Birnam Wood</i> 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.</p>.
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