The Luminaries
  • Published:
    Oct-2013 (Hardcover)
    Jul-2014 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    19th Century 1860's-1870's
  • Pages:
    544
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Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Canada's Governor General's Literary Award, 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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    • Aug-2014
    • McClelland & Stewart (Canada)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0771023243
    • ISBN13: 9780771023248
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    • Oct-2014
    • Back Bay
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0316074292
    • ISBN13: 9780316074292
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    • Apr-2014
    • Granta Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 184708432X
    • ISBN13: 9781847084323
    •  
    • Aug-2023
    • Granta Publications Ltd
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1803510161
    • ISBN13: 9781803510163
    • First Edition
    • Oct-2013
    • Reagan Arthur Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0316074314
    • ISBN13: 9780316074315
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    • Oct-2014
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0606358803
    • ISBN13: 9780606358804
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Oct-2013
    • Victoria University Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0864739478
    • ISBN13: 9780864739476
    •  
    • Oct-2013
    • McClelland & Stewart (Canada)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0771019130
    • ISBN13: 9780771019135
    •  
    • Oct-2013
    • Little, Brown & Company
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0316126950
    • ISBN13: 9780316126953
    •  
    • Oct-2013
    • Reagan Arthur Books
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Audible
    •  
    • Dec-2013
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1480592595
    • ISBN13: 9781480592599
    •  
    • Oct-2014
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1491529865
    • ISBN13: 9781491529867



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