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Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
The astonishing and epic novel that won the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
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. 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.
Details
- Format : Thick 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Fiction - Historical Fiction
- Published : 2013 (This Edition 2014 - Gratna)
- ISBN : 9781847084323
- SKU : B003097
- PPC : SP700gm
- RRP : £9.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Truly absorbing book, genuinely transporting- kept me hooked all the way. Sparkling dialogue, engrossing plot, but an effortless read, genuine page turner." - Amazon Review.
"Recently adapted as a sumptuous BBC drama, the Booker Prize winning The Luminaries is a staggering feat of relentlessly sustained narrative tension. Set in nineteenth-century gold rush New Zealand, it is a labyrinthine crime thriller, a period ghost story and immersive character study all rolled into one exquisitely constructed masterpiece." - Waterstones.
"A breathtakingly ambitious mystery . . . Catton's playful and increasingly virtuosic denouement arrives at a conclusion that is as beautiful as it is triumphant." - Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail.
"Remarkable . . . A true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th Century novel, and in doing so created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly, a world opening and closing in front of us, a human soul revealed in all its conflicted desperation and glory. Dazzling." - New York Times.
"Every sentence of this intriguing tale is expertly written, every cliffhanger chapter-ending making us beg for the next to begin. it has been perfectly constructed as the consummate literary page-turner . . . Extraordinary." - Kirsty Gunn, The Guardian.
"Irresistible. The kind of book that really doesn't come around often. Everyone should read it." - Stylist.
The Author
Eleanor Catton (born 1985) is a New Zealand author. Catton was born in Canada while her father, a New Zealand graduate, was completing a doctorate at the University of Western Ontario. She lived in Yorkshire until the age of 13, before her family settled in Canterbury, New Zealand. She studied English at the University of Canterbury, and completed a Master's in Creative Writing at The Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington. She wrote her first novel, The Rehearsal, as her master's thesis. Eleanor Catton holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she also held an adjunct professorship, and an MA in fiction from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. Currently she teaches creative writing at the Manukau Institute of Technology.