The luminaries : a novel /
This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's sham...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown,
2013.
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| Edition: | First United States edition. |
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| Summary: | This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, 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. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013."--Verso of title page. |
| Physical Description: | 834 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Awards: | Man Booker Prize, 2013 |
| ISBN: | 9780316074315 : 0316074314 |
