Title:
The luminaries / Eleanor Catton.
ISBN:
9780316074315
Personal Author:
Edition:
First United States edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown, 2013.
Physical Description:
834 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
"Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013."--Verso of title page.
Awards Note:
Man Booker Prize, 2013
Contents:
A sphere within a sphere -- Auguries - The house of self-undoing -- Paenga-wha-wha -- Weight and lucre -- The widow and the weeds -- Domicile -- The truth about Aurora -- Mutable Earth -- Matters of succession -- Orion sets when Scorpio rises -- The old moon in the young moon's arms.
Summary:
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.
OCLC Number:
ocn827082565
Availability:
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