Birnam Wood

ISBN-13: 9780374110338 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication date: 03/07/2023 Pages: 432 Sales rank: 2,726 Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.70(d) INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, The Financial Times, The Chicago Public Library, KirkusA Notable Book of the Year at The Washington PostA Best Book of the Year (So Far) at The New Yorker, The BBC, Vulture, CrimeReadsA Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick“[A] savagely satirical thriller.” —PeopleThe 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 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 g