Birnam Wood is on the move . . .
\nA landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand&rsquo\;s South Islan d\, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm aban doned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood\, an undeclare d\, unregulated\, sometimes-criminal\, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla g ardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For yea rs\, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm at Thorndik e would mean a shot at solvency at last.
\nBut the enigmatic America n billionaire Robert Lemoine also has an interest in the place: he has sna tched it up to build his end-times bunker\, or so he tells Birnam&rsquo\;s founder\, Mira\, when he catches her on the property. He&rsquo\;s intrigu ed by Mira\, and by Birnam Wood\; although they&rsquo\;re poles apart poli tically\, it seems Lemoine and the group might have enemies in common. But can Birnam trust him? And\, as their ideals and ideologies are tested\, c an they trust one another?
\nA gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize&ndash\;winning author of \;The Luminaries\, Eleanor Catton&rsquo\;s \;Birnam Wood \;is Shakespearean in its drama\, Austenian in its wit\, and\, like both influences\, fa scinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed study of i ntentions\, actions\, and consequences\, it is a mesmerizing\, unflin ching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival. (From the publisher)
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