Eleanor Catton’s new novel, ‘Birnam Wood,’ satirizes her country’s utopian image.
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It turns out that life isn’t much easier in the southern hemisphere. “A lot of New Zealanders — and I count myself in this — have this automatic sense of superiority that is absolutely not born out in the facts,” says Catton from her adopted home in Cambridge, England. “It was something that I wanted to satirize.” A discomforting read,will dispel your fantasies about riding out the apocalypse in the antipodes — or at least make you feel a little guilty about having them.
I found the character of Tony really interesting. He’s an angry young man with a not-so-secret desire to become famous. What was it like to write a Bernie bro?
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