The luminaries : a novel / Eleanor Catton.
2013
PR9639.4.C39 L86 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
The luminaries : a novel / Eleanor Catton.
Edition
First United States edition.
ISBN
9780316074315
0316074314
0316074314
Published
New York : Little, Brown, 2013.
Language
English
Description
834 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
PR9639.4.C39 L86 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.92
Summary
This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.
Note
"Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013."--Verso of title page.
Awards
Man Booker Prize, 2013
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