by Eleanor Catton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781783784271
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«Birnam Wood» is the novel by Eleanor Catton, published by Faber et Faber in paperback in 2023.
Birnam Wood follows an activist gardening collective that operates outside the law and crosses paths with a mysterious billionaire; the encounter triggers unforeseen consequences. Set in New Zealand, the novel explores ambition, ecology, and the moral conflicts that arise when good intentions clash with powerful interests.
Published on 2 March 2023, ISBN 9781783784271. Eleanor Catton is a Booker Prize winner.
A work for those interested in contemporary fiction with ecological and social tension.
Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, written as her Master's thesis, was published in 2008, and has been adapted into a 2016 film of the same name. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Booker Prize, making Catton the youngest author ever to win the prize and only the second New Zealander. It was subsequently adapted into a television miniseries, with Catton as screenwriter. In 2023, she was named on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
