Birnam Wood

A Novel

Author  Eleanor Catton
Birnam Wood

From the Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries comes an electrifying thriller about ambition, greed, environmental collapse, and how even our best intentions can lead to deadly consequences.  

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the Kirkus Prize, Orwell Prize, and the Ockham Book Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award

CBC Books' #1 Canadian Novel of the Year
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, the Globe and Mail, NPR, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, Financial Times, Slate, Kirkus Reviews, The Telegraph, Indigo, Apple iBooks Canada
A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass…