{"product_id":"birnam-wood","title":"Birnam Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Best Book of the Year\u003ci\u003e: The New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR\u003ci\u003e, The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, Time, Financial Times, Slate, The Chicago Public Library, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus, The Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] savagely satirical thriller.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Luminaries \u003c\/i\u003ebrings us \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBirnam Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleido\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003escopic insight into what drives us to survive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirnam Wood is on the move . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Luminaries\u003c\/i\u003e, Eleanor Catton's \u003ci\u003eBirnam Wood \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661274808610,"sku":"9781250321718","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_d94457db-6d21-4f12-9e38-f04c7eef7779.jpg?v=1779452835","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/birnam-wood","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}