Catton, Eleanor <br/><br/>
The luminaries  : a novel 
/ Eleanor Catton 
 - New York  : Little, Brown and Co.  , 2013 
 - 830 p.  ; 25 cm 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/> .Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Canada's Governor General's Literary Award 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780316074315 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Criminal investigations----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New Zealand----History----1853 - 1876----Fiction<br/>New Zealand----Gold discoveries----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC CAT