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Birnam Wood (B-Format)

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A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. But they hadn’t figured on the... Read More
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Birnam Wood (B-Format)

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.

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A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for 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 propulsive literary thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama and immersion in character. It is a brilliantly constructed tale of intentions, actions and consequences, and an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

‘I wanted the novel to explore the contemporary political moment without being itself partisan or propagandistic. I wanted it to be fateful but never fatalistic, and satirical, but not in a way that served the status quo. Most of all, though, I wanted it to be a thriller, a book of action and seduction and surprise and possibility, a book where people make choices and mistakes that have deadly consequences, not just for themselves, but for other people, too. I hope that it’s a gripping book, a book that confides in you and makes you laugh and – crucially, in a time of global existential threat – that makes you want to know what happens next.’ – Eleanor Catton

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781776921409

Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 May 2024

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Te Herenga Waka University Press

Audience: General / adult

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What A Ride!

This is a thrilling tale of class warfare waged through ecological subterfuge. It sounds kind of absurd when you spell it out like that, but it really is a page-turner. The way each chapter builds on the last by gradually building up an intricate, beautiful, sometimes alarming web of relationships between characters is brilliant.

Birnam Wood's Shakespearean themes are masterfully rendered through a modern lens, and by the final page I was literally shouting in disbelief at the stellar conclusion.

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