Birnam Wood / Eleanor Catton.
"The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"-- Provided by publisher.
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker--or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira, Birnam Wood, and their entrepreneurial spirit, he suggests they work this land. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other?
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374110338
- ISBN: 0374110336
- Physical Description: 424 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in 2023 by Granta Books, Great Britain. |
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Subject: | Landslides > Fiction. Gardening > Fiction. Rich people > Fiction. Community activists > Fiction. Farms > Fiction. Ambition > Fiction. Farms > Fiction. |
Genre: | Thrillers. Novels. Thrillers (Fiction) Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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Eleanor Catton is the author of the international bestseller The Luminaries, winner of the Man Booker Prize and a Governor Generalâs Literary Award. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal, won the Betty Trask Award, was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. She is also the screenwriter of Emma, a 2020 feature ?lm adaptation of Jane Austenâs novel. Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, she now lives in Cambridge, England.