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Catton, Eleanor

The luminaries : a novel / Eleanor Catton - New York : Little, Brown and Co. , 2013 - 830 p. ; 25 cm

It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have men in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bus, The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.


English

.Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Canada's Governor General's Literary Award

ISBN: 9780316074315

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Criminal investigations----Fiction

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New Zealand----History----1853 - 1876----Fiction
New Zealand----Gold discoveries----Fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction

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