EAN: 9781783784271

BIRNAM WOOD - ELEANOR CATTON KARTONIERT (TB)

A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning and bestselling author ofThe
Luminaries. 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 ofThe
Luminaries Birnam Woodis 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.

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