Birnam Wood

　　「犯罪小說女王如果還在世，也一定會愛上這本書！」－史蒂芬．金
　　游擊農耕團隊對上美國神秘富豪，如何引發一連串懸疑刺激的故事？
 
　　一場山崩封閉了Korowai隘口，並使得紐西蘭這個南島上的小鎮－Thorndike與外隔絕，導致眾多農田荒棄。這在「Birnam Wood」眼中看起來可是個大好機會！「Birnam Wood」是支農耕游擊隊伍，這群人專在荒廢的農田上，用找到（偶爾是偷來）的工具耕種食物。多年以來，他們苦於維持收支平衡，因此只要能夠好好利用Thorndike的荒地耕種，就表示他們能有穩定的收入。
 
　　然而從美國來的神秘富豪Robert Lemoine表示自己也看上了這塊空地，決定入手作為自己的末日碉堡，至少當他在自己的地產上抓到Mira時，他是這樣說的。同時Robert對Mira－「Birnam Wood」的創辦人兼靈魂人物，以及她的團隊感到很有興趣，決定提供他們十萬美金作為資金，希望彼此成為盟友。即便雙方立場南轅北轍，但似乎都有共同的⋯⋯敵人？究竟這個神秘富豪值不值得信任？而當現實因素與理想衝突時，自己的團隊內部，又是否能彼此信任呢？

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＂[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.

Eleanor Catton is the author of The Luminaries, winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal, winner of the Betty Trask Prize, was short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize and Stonewall’s Writer of the Year Award. She was born in Canada and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. She lives in Cambridge, United Kingdom.