Birnam Wood: A Novel

From the Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton, a terrific (Stephen King) thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight.

A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealands South Island, cutting o? 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. But the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine also has an interest in the placeand in Birnam Wood. But can Birnam trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust one another?

A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prizewinning author ofThe Luminaries, Eleanor CattonsBirnam Woodis Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both in?uences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed study of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is a mesmerizing, un?inching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.