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The luminaries : a novel / Eleanor Catton.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316074315 :
- ISBN: 0316074314
- Physical Description: 834 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First United States edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013."--Verso of title page. |
| Awards Note: | Man Booker Prize, 2013 |
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| Subject: | Immigrants > New Zealand > Fiction. Criminal investigation > New Zealand > Fiction. New Zealand > History > 1853-1876 > Fiction. New Zealand > Gold discoveries > Fiction. Prostitutes > Fiction. Trials (Murder) > New Zealand > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Suspense fiction. Historical fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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| Burlington Public Library | F CATTON | 39851001158980 | Adult Fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |