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The Luminaries
by Catton, Eleanor
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1803510161
- ISBN 13
- 9781803510163
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About This Item
Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Faber & Faber | 2023 | Mass Market Paperback | 848 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES 'What brings a fellow down here, you know, to the ends of the earth - what sparks a man?' 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 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 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. The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction, both a ghost story and a gripping mystery. Set amidst the promise, deceit and desperation of the mid-19th century goldrush, the lives of its rich, complex cast unspool through a labyrinthine, celestial pattern. Fiendishly clever and vividly rendered, The Luminaries establishes Catton as one of the brightest stars in the firmament. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.
Synopsis
ELEANOR CATTON was born in 1985 in London, Ontario, and raised in New Zealand. Her internationially celebrated first novel, The Rehearsal , won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Award, and the NZ Society of Authors' Best First Book Award, was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Writers Prize, and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. She holds an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was also an adjunct professor. She currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
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- h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Luminaries
- Author
- Catton, Eleanor
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1803510161
- ISBN 13
- 9781803510163
- Keywords
- Man Booker Prize, Nya Zeeland, Guldgruvor, Mysterium, Stjärnor
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