The Luminaries
By: by Eleanor Catton
Publisher: Granta; Granta Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 832
ISBN-13: 9781847084316; 9781847088765; 9781847084323
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Gold discoveries; Trials; Prostitution; Fiction; Englisch; Historischer Roman; Gold mines and mining; History
Description: It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.--
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.