
Staff Pick
Birnam Wood
by Eleanor Catton
AUCK IN STOCK
WGTN IN STOCK
Pages:
432
Published:
9 May 2024
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Te Herenga Waka University Press
ISBN:
9781776921409
Birnam Wood is on the move . . .A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. This land offers an opportunity to Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. But they hadn't figured on the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine, who also has an interest in the place. Can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other?A gripping thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama and immersion in character. A brilliantly constructed tale of intentions, actions and consequences, it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
$28.00
Finally! A new Catton book after 10 years of waiting. And it lives up to the hype! Eco-terrorism, guerilla gardening, leftist wannabe journalists, faux conservationist pest controllers all come together to basically mess up everyone else's lives. Birnam Wood is on the move!



