The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton (born 1985)

Written in English

The Luminaries

Granta Books · United Kingdom · 7 March 2024 · Paperback · 848 pages

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The Luminaries

Little, Brown and Company · United States · 15 October 2013 · Hardcover · 834 pages
The Luminaries

Victoria University Press · New Zealand · 2013
The Luminaries

Granta Books · United Kingdom · 2013 · 832 pages
The Luminaries

Little, Brown Paperbacks · United States · 7 October 2014 · Paperback · 848 pages

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Walter Moody lands on the New Zealand goldfields one stormy night in 1866, meaning to get rich, and blunders into a tense meeting held in secret by twelve men of the town. They are trying to make sense of a run of strange events: a rich man has disappeared without trace, a woman of the town has attempted suicide, and a fortune in gold has been found in the house of a drunk with no luck to speak of. Moody is pulled into their puzzle, in which the lives and fortunes of many people are linked as intricately as the stars. The book moves through the banks, ships and boom-and-bust trade of a gold-rush town, both mystery and ghost story.

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Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

New Zealand, 1866

First published

2013

Author's age

28 when first published

ISBN

9780316074315 (Little, Brown and Company, United States)

9780864739476 (Victoria University Press, New Zealand)

9781847084316 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)

9780316074292 (Little, Brown Paperbacks, United States)

9781783787265 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)

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