Eleanor Catton

"Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting o 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...

All the world's a stage--and nowhere is that more true than at an all-girls high school, particularly one where a scandal has just erupted. A teacher has had an affair with his underage student, and though her friends pretend to be dismayed, they are secretly curious and jealous. They obsessively examine the details of the affair under the watchful eye of their stern and enigmatic saxophone teacher, whose focus may not be as strictly on their upcoming...

"La autora de Las luminarias, galardonada con el Premio Booker, nos trae El Bosque Birnam, un thriller fascinante cargado de fuerza dramática y una visión caleidoscópica de lo que nos motiva a sobrevivir. Un desprendimiento de tierra ha cerrado el paso de Korowai en South Island, Nueva Zelanda, lo que ha aislado a la ciudad de Thorndike y provocado el abandono de una granja de considerable tamaño. El desastre trae consigo una oportunidad para...

"Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless 'queen bee' without rivals in her sleepy little English town. In this glittering satire of social class, Emma must navigate her way through misguided matches and romantic missteps to realize the love that has been there all along"--Container.

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