The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
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| Genre: | Historical fiction |
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| Language: | en |
| Published: | 2014-01 |
| ISBN13: | 9781847084323 |
| ISBN10: | 184708432X |
About the Book
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore 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 patterned as the night sky.