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Little, Brown and Company
October 2013
On Sale: October 15, 2013
834 pages
ISBN: 0316074314
EAN: 9780316074315
Kindle: B00G6YH6G0
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking
feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but
nothing is as it seems....
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. It is a thrilling
achievement for someone still in her midtwenties, and will
confirm for critics and readers that Eleanor Catton is one
of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament
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