The Luminaries

by Eleanor Catton

Book Overview

The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as "a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316074292
• ISBN13: 9780316074292
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

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