
Birnam Wood
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Narrated by:
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Saskia Maarleveld
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By:
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Eleanor Catton
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Birnam Wood is on the move...
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?
A gripping psychological 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 consideration of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
©2023 Granta Books (P)2023 Audible, Ltd.A story for our times.
Catton continues streak
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Excellent Eco Thriller!
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Fascinating, was totally immersed in it
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Persist through the first few chapters
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Good story, narrator was a let down
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And then the book turned out to be really well written, and then it got serious, and then it got really dark in the end.
It also turned out to be a Booker winner and written by Elizabeth Catton.
Well, what a ride! It was a bit like going to the cinema to watch Hunger Games and being hit with the Schindler’s List instead. You have to understand that I also read a lot of genre fiction and my expectation kind of was that Birnam Wood is that.
In any case, what a beautiful, beautiful book, magnificently written and richly plotted. I’ve just finished it and I’m sitting here stunned - the kind of reaction that one only gets from the best.
What a ride. Amazing 3rd from Catton
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