Eleanor Catton
1) Birnam Wood
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"The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"--
A landslide has closed a mountain pass on the south island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for a guerrilla gardening collective to plant crops. But an enigmatic American billionaire is interested in the farm...
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"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...