by Eleanor Catton · Granta Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781847088765
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«The Luminaries» is the historical mystery novel by Eleanor Catton, published by Granta Books in paperback (832 pages, in English).
In 1866, during the New Zealand gold rush, Walter Moody arrives in Hokitika and discovers a secret meeting of twelve men investigating crimes: a missing rich man, a prostitute who attempted suicide, and a fortune found in a house. Moody becomes caught in a web of fates, in a blend of mystery, history, and ghosts.
Second novel by Eleanor Catton, winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and mystery seeking an extensive work set in the nineteenth century.
Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, written as her Master's thesis, was published in 2008, and has been adapted into a 2016 film of the same name. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Booker Prize, making Catton the youngest author ever to win the prize and only the second New Zealander. It was subsequently adapted into a television miniseries, with Catton as screenwriter. In 2023, she was named on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
