Birnam Wood

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Granta
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 423 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 Zealands 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 he has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker, or so he tells Birnams founder, Mira, when he catches her on the property. Hes intrigued by Mira, and by Birnam Wood; although theyre 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 anotherA gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prizewinning author of The Luminaries , Eleanor Cattons Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both in?uences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed study of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is a mesmerizing, un?inching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

ISBN: 9781783784271