The luminaries : a novel / Eleanor Catton.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2013Edition: First United States editionDescription: 834 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316074315 :
- 0316074314
- 823/.92 23
- PR9639.4.C39 L86 2013
- Man Booker Prize, 2013
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Park Branch Youth Services FICTION | Adult Fiction | CATTON E (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 05/14/2024 | 31624003480084 |
"Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013."--Verso of title page.
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.
This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. 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.
Man Booker Prize, 2013
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