Eleanor Catton: Birnam Wood
Birnam Wood
Buch
- Pan MacMillan, 03/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781250321718
- Bestellnummer: 11475285
- Umfang: 432 Seiten
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Maße: 210 x 137 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 5.3.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Best Book of the Year (So Far) at The New Yorker, The BBC, Vulture, CrimeReads
A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick
"[A] savagely satirical thriller." -People
The Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive.
Birnam Wood is on the move . . .
A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting ö 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.
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?
A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is 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.
Biografie
Eleanor Catton, Jg. 1985, wurde in Kanada geboren. Als sie 13 Jahre alt war, zog ihre Familie nach Neuseeland, wo sie später an der Canterbury University und der Victoria University studierte. Eleanor Catton
Birnam Wood
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