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Book review: Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood is a scathing eco-thriller
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Eco-thriller Birnam Wood is Eleanor Catton's first novel in a decade.
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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”.
