By Eleanor Catton
Fiction/Granta/Paperback/424 pages/$29.95/Books Kinokuniya
4 stars
In William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, the thane of the title is told in a prophecy that he will not be vanquished until “Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill/Shall come against him”.
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