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Eleanor Catton: Birnam Wood (EBook, 2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 4 stars

Birnam Wood is on the move . . .

A landslide has closed the Korowai …

Mira read that over its lifetime Darvish Pest Control had held contracts with all of New Zealand's major agricultural industries, as well as with iwi and rūnanga, town councils, and departments of state; but it was a recent partnership with the American technology corporation Autonomo, included on the S&P 500 Index, that Darvish hoped would be his crowning achievement.

Birnam Wood by  (Page 19 - 20)

Two new words for me:

Iwi is a Maori community

A rūnanga is a Maori word for a tribal council, assembly, board or boardroom.