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The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields.
Aug 24, 2013 · A historical mystery novel set in 1866 New Zealand, where a young man stumbles into a web of secrets and intrigues. The Luminaries is a Man Booker Prize winner and a Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Historical Fiction.
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- Hardcover
Oct 15, 2013 · 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.
- Little, Brown and Company
- $28.95
Jul 29, 2014 · Winner of the Booker Prize, Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and now an exclusive series on Prime Video, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men.
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- $24.2
- Eleanor Catton
- Emblem Editions
3.9 10,852 ratings. See all formats and editions. Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems…. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields.
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- Eleanor Catton
Part mystery, part fantastical love story, and full of diabolical twists and turns, The Luminaries is a breathtaking feat of storytelling that reveals the ways our interconnected lives can shape our destinies. Bursting with characters and event, it is a story -- and a unique, richly atmospheric world -- that readers will gladly lose themselves in.
- Hardcover
- Eleanor Catton
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The Luminaries. Winner of the Booker Prize, Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and now an exclusive series on Prime Video, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men.
