Bøker av Eleanor Catton

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEBirnam 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.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA 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 ö 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 in¿uences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed study of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is a mesmerizing, un¿inching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

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.

'This astonishing debut novel from young New Zealander Eleanor Catton is a cause for surprise and celebration: smart, playful and self-possessed, it has the glitter and mystery of the true literary original' Guardian