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The Luminaries

The Luminaries

by EleanorCatton (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

    $3.39
Synopsis

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore 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 patterned as the night sky. The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction. It is full of narrative, linguistic and psychological pleasures, and has a fiendishly clever and original structuring device. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery. It is a thrilling achievement and will confirm for critics and readers that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 848
 Edition: Export ed
 Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 01 Aug 2013
ISBN 10: 1847088767
ISBN 13: 9781847088765
Book Overview: The astonishing and epic novel that won the 2013 Man Booker Prize
 Prizes: Winner of New Zealand Post Book Awards: Fiction 2014 and New Zealand Post Book Awards: People's Choice 2014 and Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction Category 2013. Long-listed for Dylan Thomas Prize 2014 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013.

Author Bio
Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand. Her debut novel The Rehearsal was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and longlisted for the Orange Prize. The novel garnered prizes and acclaim around the world, including the 2009 Betty Trask Award. It has since been published in 17 territories and 12 languages. Eleanor Catton holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she also held an adjunct professorship, and an MA in fiction writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand.