num_pages: 196
description: Mattina Brecon, a wealthy New Yorker who has moved to Puamahara, New Zealand, where she becomes obsessed with the Gravity Star, which could collapse space and time
language: English
title: The Carpathians
titlecomplete: The Carpathians
genres: Magical Realism, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 283
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book Overall , awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
category: Fiction (NZ Book Awards)
publisher: George Braziller