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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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0374110336
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9780374110338
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Birnam Wood : a Novel
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432 Pages
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English
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2023
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Thrillers / Psychological, Literary
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Fiction
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Hardcover
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9.3 in
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Reviews
A Most Anticipated Book at The Washington Post , Vogue , Elle , Oprah Daily , The Financial Times , Minneapolis Star Tribune , USA Today , BBC , The Guardian , The Times (London), Literary Hub , and more "A deadly landslide; illegal gardens; cocktail parties of the rich and powerful--toil and trouble bubble as Catton skewers the mores of our era in gorgeous language, cementing her reputation as a generational talent." -- Oprah Daily "Twisty and surprising, and Franzen-like in its rich character development and clear-eyed descriptions of social issues like cultural appropriation, class, wealth inequality, nature and the universal human desire to be liked." --Samantha Schoech, San Francisco Chronicle "The subsequent moral battles, compromises, and mysteries fill in the beating heart of this brilliant, clever book." --Lauren Puckett-Pope, Elle " Birnam Wood is a multi-layered book . . . Catton is not just a master at spinning a web of competing philosophies, though; her characters are deeply flawed but you can''t help but root for them." --Chloe Schama, Vogue "As saturated with moral scrutiny and propulsive plotting as 19th-century greats; it''s a twisty thriller via Charles Dickens, only with drones . . . Readers will hold their breath until the last page . . . This blistering look at the horrors of late capitalism manages to also be a wildly fun read." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "At once satirical and serious, [ Birnam Wood is] vintage Catton: blazingly original, intricately plotted, and as thought-provoking as it is gripping." --Madeleine Feeny, The Bookseller "Sharp, sizzling . . . Birnam Wood is tightly wound and psychologically thrilling, and Catton''s fans and readers new to her powers will savor it to the end." -- Booklist , starred review "A tragic eco-thriller of betrayed ideals and compromised loyalties . . . [Catton] pulls a taut, suspenseful story from the tangle of vivid characters. Thanks to a convincing backdrop of ecological peril, Catton''s human drama is made even more acute." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Mysterious and marvelously unpredictable, Birnam Wood had me reading the way I used to as a kid--curiously, desperately, and as if it was the whole world. Eleanor Catton connects to the natural and unnatural ways in which we try to control our environments, our impulses, and one another. A spectacular novel, conjured by a virtuoso." --Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch "Phenomenal and utterly gripping, Birnam Wood has the sense of a literary writer setting herself free and having a bit of fun. It''s fantastic. I loved it." --Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist "If George Eliot had written a thriller, it might have been a bit like this." --Francis Spufford, author of Light Perpetual "A filmic and page-turning thriller. Hubris and ambition, vanity and greed, principle and expediency, courage and hope--all are here, but not necessarily where you expect to find them." --Carys Davies, author of The Mission House " Birnam Wood is electric: a spectacular book. It has the pace and bite of a thriller. It has an iron-willed morality. It feels like the product of astonishing skill and formidable love. It''s literally, physically breathtaking." --Katherine Rundell, author of Super-Infinite "I read this in two deep gulps--it''s delicious; it had me rereading passages aloud. Catton''s storytelling is deft and irresistible in this merciless whirlpool of a book, which pulls you inexorably toward its final tragedy." --Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Dance Tree "This is an urgent, compelling read, bleak but deeply moving and humanly credible. Eleanor Catton offers an unsparing analysis of the various deadly self-delusions and corruptions that are generated by our global denial of the planet''s crisis--but also by our naive, confused yearnings to be numbered among the righteous. It is a book of real moral depth." --Rowan Williams, author of Looking East in Winter, "As saturated with moral scrutiny and propulsive plotting as 19th-century greats; it's a twisty thriller via Charles Dickens, only with drones . . . Readers will hold their breath until the last page . . . This blistering look at the horrors of late capitalism manages to also be a wildly fun read." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Sharp, sizzling . . . Birnam Wood is tightly wound and psychologically thrilling, and Catton's fans and readers new to her powers will savor it to the end." -- Booklist , starred review "A tragic eco-thriller of betrayed ideals and compromised loyalties . . . [Catton] pulls a taut, suspenseful story from the tangle of vivid characters. Thanks to a convincing backdrop of ecological peril, Catton's human drama is made even more acute." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Mysterious and marvelously unpredictable, Birnam Wood had me reading the way I used to as a kid--curiously, desperately and as if it was the whole world. Catton connects to the natural and unnatural ways in which we try to control our environments, our impulses and one another. A spectacular novel, conjured by a virtuoso." --Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch "Phenomenal and utterly gripping, Birnam Wood has the sense of a literary writer setting herself free and having a bit of fun. It's fantastic. I loved it." --Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist , on Instagram "What I admired most in Birnam Wood was the way that the rapid violence of the climax rises, all of it, out of the deep, patient, infinitely nuanced character work that comes before. If George Eliot had written a thriller, it might have been a bit like this." --Francis Spufford, author of Light Perpetual "A filmic and page-turning thriller--Eleanor Catton weaves a complex and absorbing web of human relationships in which the balance of power is constantly and unpredictably shifting. Hubris and ambition, vanity and greed, principle and expediency, courage and hope--all are here, but not necessarily where you expect to find them." --Carys Davies, author of The Mission House " Birnam Wood is electric: a spectacular book. It has the pace and bite of a thriller. It has an iron-willed morality. It feels like the product of astonishing skill and formidable love. It's literally, physically breathtaking." --Katherine Rundell, author of Super-Infinite "I read this in two deep gulps--it's delicious; it had me rereading passages aloud. Catton's storytelling is deft and irresistible in this merciless whirlpool of a book, which pulls you inexorably toward its final tragedy." --Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Dance Tree "This is an urgent, compelling read, bleak but deeply moving and humanly credible. Eleanor Catton offers an unsparing analysis of the various deadly self-delusions and corruptions that are generated by our global denial of the planet's crisis--but also by our naive, confused yearnings to be numbered among the righteous. It is a book of real moral depth." --Rowan Williams, author of Looking East in Winter, A Must Read at The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , People , Vogue , Elle , Oprah Daily , The Philadelphia Inquirer , Bloomberg , The Economist , The Financial Times , Minneapolis Star Tribune , USA Today , The BBC, The Guardian , The Times (London), Buzzfeed , Literary Hub , Kirkus Reviews, The Christian Science Monitor, Condé Nast Traveler, and more Short-listed for the Giller Prize Named a Best Young British Novelist by Granta A Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "A generational cri de coeur . . . A sophisticated page-turner . . . Birnam Wood nearly made me laugh with pleasure. The whole thing crackles . . . Greta Gerwig could film this novel, but so could Quentin Tarantino." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times " Birnam Wood is terrific. As a multilayered, character-driven thriller, it's as good as it gets. Ruth Rendell would have loved it. A beautifully textured work--what a treat." --Stephen King "Whooshingly enjoyable . . . A witty literary thriller about the collision between eco-idealism and staggering wealth." --John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air "Grand, chilling . . . [ Birnam Wood ] grips you by the throat." --Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe "Gorgeous . . . [Catton is] a generational talent." -- Oprah Daily "Kaleidoscopic . . . A gripping thriller." --Bill Goldstein, NBC Weekend Today in New York "A rollicking eco-thriller that juggles a lot of heady themes with a big plot and a heedless sense of play." -- The New York Times Book Review "A sleek contemporary thriller . . . Delicious." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Sophisticated, stylish and searching . . . A full-on triumph from a generational talent." --Hamilton Cain, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "Complex and often shocking . . . Profound." --B.D. McClay, The New Yorker "The clash of principles with human nature is much at play in this excitingly complex novel . . . Breathtaking." --Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal "An eco-thriller of grand psychological and social ambitions." --Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times "An ecological thriller, a treatise about surveillance technology, and a lush meditation on friendship and desire." --Emma Alpern, Vulture "A rare accomplishment: an intelligent and elegant thriller that is also a damn fine read." -- The Economist "Delicious . . . At once a highly inventive spin on a morality tale and a logical interpretation of contemporary ecological doom." --Sloane Crosley, Departures "[A] virtuoso performance: elaborately plotted, richly conceived, enormously readable." --Kevin Power, The Guardian "Dark in both its outlook and omnipresent humor . . . A sincere interrogation of the relationship between morality and the ability to bring about positive change." --Lily Meyer, The Atlantic "[A] page-turning thriller-slash-sneaky dystopian satire." --Patrick Rapa, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Will have you gnawing your knuckles." --Lisa Allardice, The Guardian "Part eco-thriller, part scathing social satire, and entirely unputdownable." --Emma Cooke, Buzzfeed, A Must Read at The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , People , Vogue , Elle , Oprah Daily , The Philadelphia Inquirer , Bloomberg , The Financial Times , Minneapolis Star Tribune , USA Today , BBC , The Guardian , The Times (London), Literary Hub , and more "One of 2023's most sophisticated, stylish and searching literary works, a full-on triumph from a generational talent." --Hamilton Cain, The Star Tribune "Whooshingly enjoyable . . . A witty literary thriller about the collision between eco-idealism and staggering wealth." --John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air "A grand, chilling thriller . . . [ Birnam Wood ] grips you by the throat." --Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe "Savagely satirical . . . Funny, provocative, and heartbreaking." -- People "Gorgeous . . . [Catton is] a generational talent." -- Oprah Daily "A sleek contemporary thriller . . . [ Birnam Wood ] dramatizes political, technical and environmental crises with such delicious wit." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "An eco-thriller of grand psychological and social ambitions." --Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times "A rare accomplishment: an intelligent and elegant thriller that is also a damn fine read." -- The Economist "Like a Sally Rooney thriller set in New Zealand, with an Elon Musk-esque bad guy as one of the protagonists." --Sam Sifton, The New York Times "Complex and often shocking . . . Birnam Wood 's biggest twist is not so much a particular event as the realization that this is a book in which everything that people choose to do matters, albeit not in ways they may have anticipated. Catton has a profound command of how perceptions lead to choice, and of how choice, for most of us, is an act of self-definition." --B.D. McClay, The New Yorker "[A] virtuoso performance: elaborately plotted, richly conceived, enormously readable." --Kevin Power, The Guardian "[A] page-turning thriller-slash-sneaky dystopian satire." --Patrick Rapa, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Twisty and surprising, and Franzen-like in its rich character development and clear-eyed descriptions of social issues." --Samantha Schoech, San Francisco Chronicle "[ Birnam Wood] will have you gnawing your knuckles." --Lisa Allardice, The Guardian "[A] brilliant, clever book." --Lauren Puckett-Pope, Elle "Gripping." --Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today " Birnam Wood is a multi-layered book . . . Catton is not just a master at spinning a web of competing philosophies, though; her characters are deeply flawed but you can't help but root for them." --Chloe Schama, Vogue "A propulsive thriller . . . Buoyant, seemingly effortless." --James Tarny, Bloomberg "A captivating novel of ideas that is also a finely crafted suspense novel . . . [ Birnam Wood ] will at turns shock, delight, and provoke." --Ryan Asmussen, Chicago Review of Books "A thoughtful, personality-rich page-turner." -- Vanity Fair, A Must Read at The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , People , Vogue , Elle , Oprah Daily , The Philadelphia Inquirer , Bloomberg , The Financial Times , Minneapolis Star Tribune , USA Today , BBC , The Guardian , The Times (London), Literary Hub , and more "A grand, chilling thriller . . . [ Birnam Wood ] grips you by the throat." --Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe "Savagely satirical . . . Funny, provocative, and heartbreaking." -- People "A sleek contemporary thriller . . . [ Birnam Wood ] dramatizes political, technical and environmental crises with such delicious wit." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "An eco-thriller of grand psychological and social ambitions." --Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times "Gorgeous . . . [Catton is] a generational talent." -- Oprah Daily "Complex and often shocking . . . The biggest twist in Birnam Wood is the realization that every decision matters, though not in ways we could have anticipated." --B.D. McClay, The New Yorker "[A] virtuoso performance: elaborately plotted, richly conceived, enormously readable." --Kevin Power, The Guardian "[A] page-turning thriller-slash-sneaky dystopian satire." --Patrick Rapa, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Twisty and surprising, and Franzen-like in its rich character development and clear-eyed descriptions of social issues." --Samantha Schoech, San Francisco Chronicle "[ Birnam Wood] will have you gnawing your knuckles." --Lisa Allardice, The Guardian "[A] brilliant, clever book." --Lauren Puckett-Pope, Elle "Gripping." --Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today " Birnam Wood is a multi-layered book . . . Catton is not just a master at spinning a web of competing philosophies, though; her characters are deeply flawed but you can't help but root for them." --Chloe Schama, Vogue "A hold-on-to-your-hat eco-thriller with big, juicy themes and morally conflicted characters who could be in the room with you . . . Brilliant." --Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Sunday Times (London) "[ Birnam Wood ] so brilliantly and brutally changes our perception of what has gone before . . . A dark and brilliant novel." --Alex Preston, The Observer (London) "Catton's best book yet . . . Ingenious, intricate yet always lucid." --Claire Lowdon, The Times Literary Supplement (London) "A propulsive thriller . . . Buoyant, seemingly effortless." --James Tarny, Bloomberg "[An] explosive story, mysterious and gripping from start to finish." --Shahidha Bari, Financial Times "A captivating novel of ideas that is also a finely crafted suspense novel . . . [ Birnam Wood ] will at turns shock, delight, and provoke." --Ryan Asmussen, Chicago Review of Books "A thoughtful, personality-rich page-turner." -- Vanity Fair "Persuasive and devastating." --Laura McLean-Ferris, 4Columns "A stark and powerful indictment of the innumerable ways that we are undone, individually and collectively, by ambition . . . [ Birnam Wood is] Shakespearian in its sound and fury." --Joshua Bartlett, Ploughshares, "Mysterious and marvelously unpredictable, Birnam Wood had me reading the way I used to as a kid--curiously, desperately and as if it was the whole world. Catton connects to the natural and unnatural ways in which we try to control our environments, our impulses and one another. A spectacular novel, conjured by a virtuoso." --Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch "What I admired most in Birnam Wood was the way that the rapid violence of the climax rises, all of it, out of the deep, patient, infinitely nuanced character work that comes before. If George Eliot had written a thriller, it might have been a bit like this." --Francis Spufford, author of Light Perpetual "A filmic and page-turning thriller--Eleanor Catton weaves a complex and absorbing web of human relationships in which the balance of power is constantly and unpredictably shifting. Hubris and ambition, vanity and greed, principle and expediency, courage and hope--all are here, but not necessarily where you expect to find them." --Carys Davies, author of The Mission House " Birnam Wood is electric: a spectacular book. It has the pace and bite of a thriller. It has an iron-willed morality. It feels like the product of astonishing skill and formidable love. It's literally, physically breathtaking." --Katherine Rundell, author of Super-Infinite "I read this in two deep gulps--it's delicious; it had me rereading passages aloud. Catton's storytelling is deft and irresistible in this merciless whirlpool of a book, which pulls you inexorably toward its final tragedy." --Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Dance Tree "This is an urgent, compelling read, bleak but deeply moving and humanly credible. Eleanor Catton offers an unsparing analysis of the various deadly self-delusions and corruptions that are generated by our global denial of the planet's crisis--but also by our naive, confused yearnings to be numbered among the righteous. It is a book of real moral depth." --Rowan Williams, author of Looking East in Winter, A Must Read at The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , People , Vogue , Elle , Oprah Daily , The Philadelphia Inquirer , Bloomberg , The Financial Times , Minneapolis Star Tribune , USA Today , BBC , The Guardian , The Times (London), Literary Hub , and more "A grand, chilling thriller . . . [ Birnam Wood ] grips you by the throat." --Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe "Savagely satirical . . . Funny, provocative, and heartbreaking." -- People "A sleek contemporary thriller . . . [ Birnam Wood ] dramatizes political, technical and environmental crises with such delicious wit." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "An eco-thriller of grand psychological and social ambitions." --Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times "Gorgeous . . . [Catton is] a generational talent." -- Oprah Daily "Like a Sally Rooney thriller set in New Zealand, with an Elon Musk-esque bad guy as one of the protagonists." --Sam Sifton, The New York Times "Complex and often shocking . . . Birnam Wood ''s biggest twist is not so much a particular event as the realization that this is a book in which everything that people choose to do matters, albeit not in ways they may have anticipated. Catton has a profound command of how perceptions lead to choice, and of how choice, for most of us, is an act of self-definition." --B.D. McClay, The New Yorker "[A] virtuoso performance: elaborately plotted, richly conceived, enormously readable." --Kevin Power, The Guardian "[A] page-turning thriller-slash-sneaky dystopian satire." --Patrick Rapa, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Twisty and surprising, and Franzen-like in its rich character development and clear-eyed descriptions of social issues." --Samantha Schoech, San Francisco Chronicle "[ Birnam Wood] will have you gnawing your knuckles." --Lisa Allardice, The Guardian "[A] brilliant, clever book." --Lauren Puckett-Pope, Elle "Gripping." --Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today " Birnam Wood is a multi-layered book . . . Catton is not just a master at spinning a web of competing philosophies, though; her characters are deeply flawed but you can''t help but root for them." --Chloe Schama, Vogue "A hold-on-to-your-hat eco-thriller with big, juicy themes and morally conflicted characters who could be in the room with you . . . Brilliant." --Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Sunday Times (London) "[ Birnam Wood ] so brilliantly and brutally changes our perception of what has gone before . . . A dark and brilliant novel." --Alex Preston, The Observer (London) "Catton''s best book yet . . . Ingenious, intricate yet always lucid." --Claire Lowdon, The Times Literary Supplement (London) "A propulsive thriller . . . Buoyant, seemingly effortless." --James Tarny, Bloomberg "[An] explosive story, mysterious and gripping from start to finish." --Shahidha Bari, Financial Times "A captivating novel of ideas that is also a finely crafted suspense novel . . . [ Birnam Wood ] will at turns shock, delight, and provoke." --Ryan Asmussen, Chicago Review of Books "A thoughtful, personality-rich page-turner." -- Vanity Fair "Persuasive and devastating." --Laura McLean-Ferris, 4Columns "A stark and powerful indictment of the innumerable ways that we are undone, individually and collectively, by ambition . . . [ Birnam Wood is] Shakespearian in its sound and fury." --Joshua Bartlett, Ploughshares, A Most Anticipated Book at The Washington Post , Vogue , Elle , Oprah Daily , The Financial Times , Minneapolis Star Tribune , USA Today , BBC , The Guardian , The Times (London), Literary Hub , and more "A deadly landslide; illegal gardens; cocktail parties of the rich and powerful--toil and trouble bubble as Catton skewers the mores of our era in gorgeous language, cementing her reputation as a generational talent." -- Oprah Daily "The subsequent moral battles, compromises, and mysteries fill in the beating heart of this brilliant, clever book." --Lauren Puckett-Pope, Elle " Birnam Wood is a multi-layered book . . . Catton is not just a master at spinning a web of competing philosophies, though; her characters are deeply flawed but you can''t help but root for them." --Chloe Schama, Vogue "As saturated with moral scrutiny and propulsive plotting as 19th-century greats; it''s a twisty thriller via Charles Dickens, only with drones . . . Readers will hold their breath until the last page . . . This blistering look at the horrors of late capitalism manages to also be a wildly fun read." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "At once satirical and serious, [ Birnam Wood is] vintage Catton: blazingly original, intricately plotted, and as thought-provoking as it is gripping." --Madeleine Feeny, The Bookseller "Sharp, sizzling . . . Birnam Wood is tightly wound and psychologically thrilling, and Catton''s fans and readers new to her powers will savor it to the end." -- Booklist , starred review "A tragic eco-thriller of betrayed ideals and compromised loyalties . . . [Catton] pulls a taut, suspenseful story from the tangle of vivid characters. Thanks to a convincing backdrop of ecological peril, Catton''s human drama is made even more acute." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Mysterious and marvelously unpredictable, Birnam Wood had me reading the way I used to as a kid--curiously, desperately, and as if it was the whole world. Eleanor Catton connects to the natural and unnatural ways in which we try to control our environments, our impulses, and one another. A spectacular novel, conjured by a virtuoso." --Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch "Phenomenal and utterly gripping, Birnam Wood has the sense of a literary writer setting herself free and having a bit of fun. It''s fantastic. I loved it." --Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist "If George Eliot had written a thriller, it might have been a bit like this." --Francis Spufford, author of Light Perpetual "A filmic and page-turning thriller. Hubris and ambition, vanity and greed, principle and expediency, courage and hope--all are here, but not necessarily where you expect to find them." --Carys Davies, author of The Mission House " Birnam Wood is electric: a spectacular book. It has the pace and bite of a thriller. It has an iron-willed morality. It feels like the product of astonishing skill and formidable love. It''s literally, physically breathtaking." --Katherine Rundell, author of Super-Infinite "I read this in two deep gulps--it''s delicious; it had me rereading passages aloud. Catton''s storytelling is deft and irresistible in this merciless whirlpool of a book, which pulls you inexorably toward its final tragedy." --Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Dance Tree "This is an urgent, compelling read, bleak but deeply moving and humanly credible. Eleanor Catton offers an unsparing analysis of the various deadly self-delusions and corruptions that are generated by our global denial of the planet''s crisis--but also by our naive, confused yearnings to be numbered among the righteous. It is a book of real moral depth." --Rowan Williams, author of Looking East in Winter, A Must Read at The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , People , Vogue , Elle , Oprah Daily , The Philadelphia Inquirer , Bloomberg , The Economist , The Financial Times , Minneapolis Star Tribune , USA Today , The BBC, The Guardian , The Times (London), Buzzfeed , Literary Hub , Kirkus Reviews, The Christian Science Monitor, Condé Nast Traveler, and more Named a Best Young British Novelist by Granta A Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "A generational cri de coeur . . . A sophisticated page-turner . . . Birnam Wood nearly made me laugh with pleasure. The whole thing crackles . . . Greta Gerwig could film this novel, but so could Quentin Tarantino." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times " Birnam Wood is terrific. As a multilayered, character-driven thriller, it's as good as it gets. Ruth Rendell would have loved it. A beautifully textured work--what a treat." --Stephen King "Whooshingly enjoyable . . . A witty literary thriller about the collision between eco-idealism and staggering wealth." --John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air "Grand, chilling . . . [ Birnam Wood ] grips you by the throat." --Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe "Gorgeous . . . [Catton is] a generational talent." -- Oprah Daily "Kaleidoscopic . . . A gripping thriller." --Bill Goldstein, NBC Weekend Today in New York "A rollicking eco-thriller that juggles a lot of heady themes with a big plot and a heedless sense of play." -- The New York Times Book Review "A sleek contemporary thriller . . . Delicious." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Sophisticated, stylish and searching . . . A full-on triumph from a generational talent." --Hamilton Cain, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "Complex and often shocking . . . Profound." --B.D. McClay, The New Yorker "The clash of principles with human nature is much at play in this excitingly complex novel . . . Breathtaking." --Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal "An eco-thriller of grand psychological and social ambitions." --Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times "An ecological thriller, a treatise about surveillance technology, and a lush meditation on friendship and desire." --Emma Alpern, Vulture "A rare accomplishment: an intelligent and elegant thriller that is also a damn fine read." -- The Economist "Delicious . . . At once a highly inventive spin on a morality tale and a logical interpretation of contemporary ecological doom." --Sloane Crosley, Departures "[A] virtuoso performance: elaborately plotted, richly conceived, enormously readable." --Kevin Power, The Guardian "Dark in both its outlook and omnipresent humor . . . A sincere interrogation of the relationship between morality and the ability to bring about positive change." --Lily Meyer, The Atlantic "[A] page-turning thriller-slash-sneaky dystopian satire." --Patrick Rapa, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Will have you gnawing your knuckles." --Lisa Allardice, The Guardian "Part eco-thriller, part scathing social satire, and entirely unputdownable." --Emma Cooke, Buzzfeed, "Mysterious and marvelously unpredictable, Birnam Wood had me reading the way I used to as a kid--curiously, desperately and as if it was the whole world. Catton connects to the natural and unnatural ways in which we try to control our environments, our impulses and one another. A spectacular novel, conjured by a virtuoso." --Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch "Phenomenal and utterly gripping, Birnam Wood has the sense of a literary writer setting herself free and having a bit of fun. It's fantastic. I loved it." --Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist , on Instagram "What I admired most in Birnam Wood was the way that the rapid violence of the climax rises, all of it, out of the deep, patient, infinitely nuanced character work that comes before. If George Eliot had written a thriller, it might have been a bit like this." --Francis Spufford, author of Light Perpetual "A filmic and page-turning thriller--Eleanor Catton weaves a complex and absorbing web of human relationships in which the balance of power is constantly and unpredictably shifting. Hubris and ambition, vanity and greed, principle and expediency, courage and hope--all are here, but not necessarily where you expect to find them." --Carys Davies, author of The Mission House " Birnam Wood is electric: a spectacular book. It has the pace and bite of a thriller. It has an iron-willed morality. It feels like the product of astonishing skill and formidable love. It's literally, physically breathtaking." --Katherine Rundell, author of Super-Infinite "I read this in two deep gulps--it's delicious; it had me rereading passages aloud. Catton's storytelling is deft and irresistible in this merciless whirlpool of a book, which pulls you inexorably toward its final tragedy." --Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Dance Tree "This is an urgent, compelling read, bleak but deeply moving and humanly credible. Eleanor Catton offers an unsparing analysis of the various deadly self-delusions and corruptions that are generated by our global denial of the planet's crisis--but also by our naive, confused yearnings to be numbered among the righteous. It is a book of real moral depth." --Rowan Williams, author of Looking East in Winter
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of the Year : The New York Times Book Review, NPR , The New Yorker , The Washington Post , The Atlantic, Time, Financial Times, Slate, The Chicago Public Library, Kirkus, The Telegraph 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 kaleido scopic 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 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. 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 inuences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed study of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is a mesmerizing, uninching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
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PR9639.4.C39B57 2023
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