The Luminaries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316074292)

The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries.

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.

Author: Eleanor Catton
ISBN-10: 0316074292
ISBN-13: 9780316074292
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2014
Pages: 864
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.06w x 1.47d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/19/2014 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 10/24/2014 pg. 69