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Eleanor Catton’s fiendishly clever novel. Both ghost story and gripping mystery, it richly evokes a mid-19th century world of gold rush boom and bust.It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune 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."It’s not even a novel in the normal sense, but rather a mass confabulation that evaporates in front of us, an astrological divination waning like the moon, the first section 360 pages long (or are those degrees?), the last a mere sliver. But it’s a sliver that delivers ... A score of major characters take turns as protagonists. They headline in set pieces and protracted scenes, suffer shootings and poisonings, enact strategic whoring, survive storms at sea, find treasure sewn in dresses, lose the treasure, find it again ... The Luminaries is a tr

Who reads The Luminaries?

Author

Eleanor Catton

Publisher

Granta; Granta Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847084316

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.7 / 5 (477 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14