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Birnam Wood - A Novel
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Birnam Wood - A Novel
From McClelland & Stewart
Current price: $36.95
Bolen Books
Birnam Wood - A Novel
From McClelland & Stewart
Current price: $36.95
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Shortlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Kirkus Prize, Orwell Prize, and the Ockham Book Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award
CBC Books' #1 Canadian Novel of 2023
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the
New York Times Book Review
,
The New Yorker
,
Time
,
Kirkus Reviews
,
The Guardian
, the
Globe and Mail
, and many more
One of Barack Obama's 2023 Summer Reading List titles
From the Booker Prize–winning author of
The Luminaries
comes an electrifying thriller grounded in a provocative and sly exploration of some of the most pressing issues of our times.
Birnam Wood is on the move . . .
A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster has created an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice.
For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira, Birnam Wood’s founder, stumbles on an answer: occupying the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. The enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine 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 and Birnam Wood, he makes them an offer that would set them up for the long term. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust one another?
Birnam Wood
is Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both influences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. It is an unflinching look at the surprising consequences of even our most well-intended actions, and an enthralling consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
AWARDS
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2023 Kirkus Prize short-listed
•
2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize short-listed
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2024 DUBLIN Literary Award long-listed
- Authors : Eleanor Catton
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition:
- Pages: 432
- Height: 9.28
- Width: 6.26
- Weight: 1.36
- Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
- Isbn: 9780771024xxx
- Release Date : 2023-03-07