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Author Catton, Eleanor, 1985- author. Title The luminaries : a novel / Eleanor Catton. Publisher New York : Little, Brown, 2013. Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Manitowish Waters adult fiction F Cat AVAILABLE Presque Isle adult fiction F Cat AVAILABLE Spooner adult fiction F CAT DUE 05-09-24 Superior adult fiction FICTION Catton, Eleanor DUE 04-06-24 Washburn adult fiction FIC CAT AVAILABLE Edition First United States edition. Descript 834 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Note "Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013."--Title page verso. "Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize."--Cover. Summary This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries. Subject Immigrants -- New Zealand -- Fiction. Gold miners -- Fiction. Gold mines and mining -- Fiction. Storytelling -- Fiction. Criminal investigation -- New Zealand -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Prostitutes -- Fiction. Trials (Murder) -- New Zealand -- Fiction. New Zealand -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction. New Zealand -- History -- 1853-1876 -- Fiction. Genre Thrillers (Fiction) Historical fiction. ISBN/ISSN 9780316074315 0316074314
