The luminaries / Eleanor Catton.

By:

Catton, Eleanor, 1985- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780864738950
9780864739124

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

NZ823.3 23

Awards:

Man Booker Prize, Winner, 2013

Summary: "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. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous sum of money 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."--Publisher information.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	NZ 823.3 CAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A529301B

Novel.

"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. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous sum of money 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."--Publisher information.

Man Booker Prize, Winner, 2013

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