The luminaries : a novel / Eleanor Catton.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316074315 :
- ISBN: 0316074314
- ISBN: 9780316074315
- 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. |
Summary, etc.: | Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 to seek his fortune in the goldfields, Walter Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries. |
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. |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. Historical fiction. |
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Author Notes
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton was born in Canada on September 24, 1985. She moved to New Zealand with her family when she was six years old. She studied English at the University of Canterbury and received a master's in creative writing at The Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal, was published in 2008. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. In 2015 she ws made an Honorary Literary Fellows in the New Zealand Society of Authors' annual Waitangi Day Honours. In 2016, she was named as one of six, Arts New Zealand's Laureate Award winners. (Bowker Author Biography)