The luminaries
By: Eleanor Catton
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 832
ISBN-13: 9780771019104; 9780771023248
Subjects: Immigrants; Fiction; Criminal investigation; History; Gold discoveries; Prostitutes; Trials (Murder); Gold mines and mining
Description: A bold neo-Victorian murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. In 1866, a weary Englishman lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way.
Notes: Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize 2013
Table of contents: title: A sphere within a sphere; title: Auguries; title: The house of self-undoing; title: Paenga-wha-wha; title: Weight and lucre; title: The widow and the weeds; title: Domicile; title: The truth about Aurora; title: Mutable Earth; title: Matters of succession; title: Orion sets when Scorpio rises; title: The old moon in the young moon's arms.