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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

By Eleanor Catton

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The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries.   It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gol... Read more

The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries.  

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met 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 cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into 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 bust, The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement. It richly confirms that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament.

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Print pages864
PublisherBack Bay Books
Publication date October 7, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780316074292
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Eleanor Catton
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Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 24 September 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. She is related to author Bruce Catton. Catton's debut novel, The Rehearsal, was published in 2008. It was writt...

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