The luminaries / Eleanor Catton.

By:

Catton, Eleanor, 1985- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Catton, Eleanor, 1985-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Granta, 2013.Description: 832 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmISBN:

9781847084316 (hbk.) :
9781847084316 (hbk.)

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

823.914 CAT

LOC classification:

PR9639.4.C39 L8 2013

Summary: It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 2 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Novels/Biographies	823.914 CAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		216212

Illustrations on lining papers.

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.