Birnam Wood
Birnam Wood
Author: Eleanor Catton
Publisher: Granta
ISBN: 9781783784271
What our staff have to say:
Booker winning author of The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton's third novel, BIRNAM WOOD, a psychological thriller, set in a remote area of New Zealand where scores of ultra-rich foreigners are building fortress-like homes in preparation for a coming, following the guerrilla gardening outfit Birnam Wood, a ragtag group of leftists who move about the country cultivating other people's land, whose chance encounter with an American billionaire sparks a tragic sequence of events which questions how far each of us would go to ensure our own survival--and at what cost."Against the backdrop of New Zealand’s hills, a group of guerrilla gardeners makes an uneasy deal with a money-hungry billionaire. Each motivated by their own ambition, the characters will come up against each other in continually surprising ways. Inspired by Macbeth, Birnam Wood is a propulsive and incisive look at our modern age: at eco-politics, virtue signalling, late stage capitalism, and ambition."
— Nirica
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