The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning vel hailed as a true achivement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century vel, and in so doing created a vel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly.--New York Times Book Review 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 ermous 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 velistic achievement. It richly confirms that Elear Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Turtleback Books
ISBN-10
0606358803
ISBN-13
9780606358804
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208762416
Product Key Features
Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Author
Eleanor Catton
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication
01/10/2014
Country of Publication
United States
Author Biography
Eleanor Cattonholds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop andan MA in fiction writing from the InternationalInstitute of Modern Letters. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand.