Longlisted for the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013.
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.
| ISBN: | 9781847084323 |
| Publication date: | 3rd April 2014 |
| Author: | Eleanor Catton |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 832 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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