The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an…
Specifikacia The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes.
The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction. 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 is full of narrative, linguistic and psychological pleasures, and has a fiendishly clever and original structuring device.
Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery. It is a thrilling achievement and will confirm for critics and readers that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament.