The luminaries

Catton, Eleanor, 1985-

Published	2013 · Victoria University Press
ISBN	9780864739889
Physical	828 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Protitutes -- New Zealand -- Fiction. Immigrants -- New Zealand -- Fiction. Trials (Murder) -- New Zealand -- Fiction Criminal investigation -- New Zealand -- West coast -- Fiction. West Coast (N.Z.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013. 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards Finalist -- Fiction category -2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards Finalist -- Nielsen Booksellers' Choice category. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon New Zealands 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.

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