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The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement. It richly confirms that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament.

A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their every act is a performance, every platform a stage. But when the local drama school turns the story into their year-end show, the real world and the world of the theater are forced to meet. With the dates of the performances -- the musicians' and the acting students' -- approaching, the dramas, real and staged, begin to resemble each other, until they merge in a climax worthy of both life and art.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA 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 TelegraphA 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 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. 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 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.

A gripping psychological thriller from the BookerPrize-winning and bestselling author of The Luminaries.

NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023 FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the move... Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker - or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira, Birnam Wood, and their entrepreneurial spirit, he suggests they work this land. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other? A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama and immersion in character. A brilliantly constructed consideration of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'A breathtakingly ambitious mystery ... as beautiful as it is triumphant' Daily Mail An astonishing, epic story of promise, deceit and desperation in New Zealand's gold rush. 'What brings a fellow down here, you know, to the ends of the earth - what sparks a man?' It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a woman has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction, both a ghost story and a gripping mystery. Set amidst the promise, deceit and desperation of the mid-19th century goldrush, the lives of its rich, complex cast unspool through a labyrinthine, celestial pattern. Fiendishly clever and vividly rendered, The Luminaries established Catton as one of the brightest stars in the firmament. 'A book to curl up with and devour, intricately plotted and extravagantly described, a pastiche of the Victorian sensation novel in the same smart yet playful vein as Sarah Waters' Guardian

A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The publicity seems to turn every act into a performance and every platform into a stage. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are forced to meet, and soon the boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve ... The Rehearsal is an exhilarating and provocative novel about the unsimple mess of human desire, at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd expose of emotional compromise.

Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: an astonishing, epic story of promise, deceit and desperation in New Zealand's gold rush, and WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2013.

‘2009's most exciting new voice’ Guardian Review A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are forced to meet, and soon the boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve. ELEANOR CATTON was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in Canterbury, New Zealand. She won the 2007 Sunday Star-Times short-story competition, the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship to the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the 2008 Louis Johnson New Writers' Bursary. Catton's first novel, The Rehearsal, won the Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. She currently lives in Iowa.More about the author

1866: Walter Moody har krysset halve kloden for å tjene en formue som gullgraver på New Zealands vestkyst. Vel fremme i Hokitika valser han uforvarende inn i et møte mellom tolv av stedets menn, som har kommet sammen i all hemmelighet for å diskutere en serie oppsiktsvekkende hendelser. Hvorfor er Hokitikas rikeste gullgraver som sunket i jorden? Har horen Anna virkelig prøvd å ta sitt liv? Og hvordan kunne den håpløse drankeren Crosbie Wells ha etterlatt seg en formue da han døde? Moody blir trukket inn i mysteriene og i et nettverk av skjebner like komplekse og raffinerte som mønstrene på nattehimmelen. For ved denne sivilisasjonens utpost, der det finnes vitner til de færreste forbrytelser, har hver mann en mulighet til å finne opp seg selv på nytt. Eleanor Cattons De strålende er et oppslukende litterært mysterium spekket av uforglemmelige episoder og skikkelser. Det er en formmessig briljant pageturner av en roman, skrevet i et språk så klart og originalt at hver setning skinner. Catton var bare 28 år gammel da hun som den yngste gjennom tidene ble tildelt Man Booker-prisen for boken.

Eleanor Cattons De strålende er et oppslukende litterært mysterium spekket av uforglemmelige episoder og skikkelser. Det er en formmessig briljant pageturner av en roman, skrevet i et språk så klart og originalt at hver setning skinner. 1866: Walter Moody har krysset halve kloden for å tjene en formue som gullgraver på New Zealands vestkyst. Vel fremme i Hokitika valser han uforvarende inn i et møte mellom tolv av stedets menn, som har kommet sammen i all hemmelighet for å diskutere en serie oppsiktsvekkende hendelser. Hvorfor er Hokitikas rikeste gullgraver som sunket i jorden? Har horen Anna virkelig prøvd å ta sitt liv? Og hvordan kunne den håpløse drankeren Crosbie Wells ha etterlatt seg en formue da han døde? Moody blir trukket inn i mysteriene og i et nettverk av skjebner like komplekse og raffinerte som mønstrene på nattehimmelen. For ved denne sivilisasjonens utpost, der det finnes vitner til de færreste forbrytelser, har hver mann en mulighet til å finne opp seg selv på nytt. Catton var bare 28 år gammel da hun som den yngste gjennom tidene ble tildelt Man Booker-prisen for boken.

Klimataktivisten Mira Bunting hittar tillBirnam Wood, en inoficiell, halvkriminell, ibland filantropisk grupp av vänner som ägnar sig åt guerillaodling. Tillsammans planterar de växter och träd på platser som ingen kommer att upptäcka: i vägrenar, i bortglömda parker och på förfallna bakgårdar. Men vännerna i gruppen har svårt att komma överens. Till slut finner Mira en lösning, ett större projekt som alla kan enas bakom.Ett jordskred har plötsligt skapat en möjlighet: ett stort landområde har lämnats till synes helt övergivet, nära staden Thorndike.Men Mira och Birnam Wood är inte de enda som är intresserade av Thorndike. Robert Lemoine, en gåtfull ameriansk billionär har spanat in området och vill bygga en stor bunker där. Eller, det är i alla fall vad han säger till Mira när han förstår att de båda är intresserade av samma markområde. Fascinerad av Birnam Wood och deras entreprenörsanda föreslår han att gruppen får odla där. Men kan de verkligen lita på honom? Deras ideal och ideologier sätts på prov. Kan de verkligen lita på varandra?Birnam Wood är en gripande psykologisk thriller. En litterär bladvändare från den Bookerpris-vinnande författaren till Himlakroppar, som förför med sin humor, sitt otroliga persongalleri och sin samtida skärpa. En briljant konstruerad berättelse om intentioner, handlingar och deras konsekvenser, och en studie i den mänskliga impulsen att säkra sin egen överlevnad.

Mira Bunting johtaa Birnamin metsä -nimistä ympäristöaktivistien kollektiivia Uudessa-Seelannissa. Kollektiivi viljelee laittomasti yksityisiä joutomaita, tienpenkereitä ja syrjäisiä puistoja. Kun maanvyörymä katkaisee tieyhteydet läheiseen Korowain kansallispuistoon ja sen reunalla toimivaan maatilaan, Mira näkee tilaisuuden siirtyä sissiviljelystä laajempaan luomutuotantoon.Tilan hankkii kuitenkin droneilla rikastunut miljardööri Robert Lemoine, joka ryhtyy rakentamaan paikalle maailmanlopun bunkkeriaan. Yllättäen Lemoine kiinnostuu Mirasta ja tarjoaa kollektiiville rahakasta sopimusta, joka avaa Birnamin metsälle mahdollisuuden taloudelliseen riippumattomuuteen.Alkuinnostuksen jälkeen kollektiivissa herää kysymyksiä. Kuka Lemoine oikeastaan on? Voiko häneen luottaa? Salaako Mira heiltä jotain? Luottamus rakoilee ja riitoja repeää. Käynnistyvässä tapahtumaketjussa ihanteet ja ideologiat punnitaan ja kukin joutuu valintojensa järkyttävien seurausten eteen.Eleanor Catton on kirjoittanut mestarillisen shakespearelaisen draaman, jossa näennäisen hyvät aikeet ja oikeamieliset pyrkimykset kätkevät alleen julman, jopa nihilistisen todellisuuden. Birnamin metsä on sekä koukuttava trilleri että armoton tutkielma ihmisluonnosta ilmastokatastrofin ja kyynisen globaalikapitalismin ajassa.