03847cam a2200589 4500 2261069033 TxAuBib 20250523120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780374718015 0374718016 B09Y46DSD7 Amazon a466f932-5260-4467-9d01-54e32afccee7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8918301 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Catton, Eleanor. Birnam Wood [Bridges eBook] : A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. award winning. Booker Prize. Shakespeare. Jane Austen. billionaire. New Zealand. resistance. collective. man booker. mutual aid. Political. Anarchism. Gardening. guerrilla. suspense. Thriller. Macbeth. privacy. climate. drones. spying. Tense. taut. HTML:<p><b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</b><br /> <b><br /> A Best Book of the Year<i>: The New York Times Book Review,</i> NPR<i>, The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>The Atlantic, Time, Financial Times, Slate, The Chicago Public Library,</i></b> <i><b>Kirkus, The Telegraph</b><br /></i><b>A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick</b><br /> <b><br /> "[A] savagely satirical thriller." —<i>People</i></b><br /> <b>The Booker Prize–winning author of <i>The Luminaries</i> brings us</b> <b><i>Birnam Wood</i>, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleido</b><b>scopic insight into what drives us to survive.</b><br /> <i><br /> Birnam Wood is on the move . . .<br /></i><br /> 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 presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, 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. To occupy the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last.<br /> But the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine also has an interest in the place: he has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker, or so he tells Birnam's founder, Mira, when he catches her on the property. He's intrigued by Mira, and by Birnam Wood; although they're poles apart politically, it seems Lemoine and the group might have enemies in common. But can Birnam trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust one another?<br /> A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize–winning author of <i>The Luminaries</i>, Eleanor Catton's <i>Birnam Wood</i> is Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both influences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed study of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is a mesmerizing, unflinching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.</p>. Literature. Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Libby Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-05-21 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a466f932-5260-4467-9d01-54e32afccee7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a466f932-5260-4467-9d01-54e32afccee7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)