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The Luminaries

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  • Aug 24, 2013
  • #Fiction
Eleanor Catton
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Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night... Show More

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

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 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 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 bust, The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.

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Number of Pages: 848

ISBN: 0316074314

ISBN-13: 9780316074315

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