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Birnam Wood / Eleanor Catton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wellington : Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2023Description: 423 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781776920648
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR9639.4.C39 B58 2023
Summary: "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 hadnt 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."-- Publisher's website.
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"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 hadnt 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."-- Publisher's website.

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