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Birnam Wood

Summary: 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. 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0374110336 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780374110338
  • Physical Description: 424 pages ; 24 cm
    print
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
  • Badges:
    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 5 / 5.0

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published in 2023 by Granta Books, Great Britain.
Subject: Landslides Fiction
Gardening Fiction
Rich people Fiction
Community activists Fiction
Farms Fiction
Ambition Fiction
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction)

Available copies

  • 36 of 43 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 43 total copies.
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Bookplate: Plated 2023: In Memory of Elizabeth Krumrine-Hubbard
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