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Birnam Wood / Eleanor Catton.

Author/creator Catton, Eleanor, 1985- author.
Format Book and Print
EditionFirst American edition.
Publication Info New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Copyright Notice ©2023
Description424 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Abstract "The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"-- Provided by publisher.
Abstract New Zealand's South Island. 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?
General noteOriginally published in 2023 by Granta Books, Great Britain.
Genre/formThrillers.
Genre/formNovels.
Genre/formThrillers (Fiction)
Genre/formThrillers (Fiction)
Genre/formPsychological fiction.
Genre/formThrillers (Fiction)
Genre/formPsychological fiction.
Genre/formNovels.
LCCN 2022053154
ISBN9780374110338 hardcover
ISBN0374110336 hardcover
Standard identifier# 40031704149

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