The Luminaries

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Granta
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 832 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealands 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.

ISBN: 9781847088765