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The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as "a true
achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century
novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something
utterly new. The pages fly."--New York Times Book Review
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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