350 students and staff travel to a fictional New Zealand
In 'Birnam Wood', Eleanor Catton takes you to a world of her own creation
The psychological eco-thriller 'Birnam Wood', this year's One Book One Campus book selection, is set in a fictional New Zealand.
Author Eleanor Catton: ‘In my imagination, the Korowai region consists of a combination of the Mount Aspiring, Mount Cook and Arthur's Pass national parks.’ Three hundred and fifty students and staff members are already reading and 'travelling' along.
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About the book
Meet Mira Bunting who, together with her friends, has set up an activist gardening collective: Birnam Wood. They are struggling financially, but that changes when Mira meets a mysterious American multimillionaire.
They talk the way real people talk, but they’re freer, ruder, funnier.
About Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand author. In 2013, at the age of 28, she became the youngest author ever to win the Booker Prize. She received the prize for her second novel 'The Luminaries'.
Events in the autumn
and be the first to receive an invitation for the One Book One Campus events in the autumn.
One Book One Campus
One Book One Campus is a recurring reading event for all Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ staff and students. You all read the same book, meet other readers and share your experiences. Reading pleasure and encounters are key.
The book choice is in line with the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ year theme of 2025: Healthy Planet.