The Luminaries
Author(s): Eleanor Catton
‘There was this large world of rolling time and shifting spaces, and that small, stilled world of horror and unease – they fit inside each other, a sphere within a sphere.’ It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his 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 sum of money 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. From the author of the award-winning global phenomenon The Rehearsal comes a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems.
Page edges yellowed, light foxing, dutstjacket some marks
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Victoria University Press
- : UNKNOWN
- : 01 July 2013
- : 240 x 160 mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Eleanor Catton
- : hardback with dustjacket
- : very good
- : 832