Sunday, 27 October 2013
The Luminaries (Novel) By Eleanor Catton Granta Books, UK ISBN 1847084311 Cover Story
Twelve men gather in a hotel room to discuss a series of recent, simultaneously occurring coincidences and crimes in their small New Zealand town in the year 1866. Walter Moody, fresh off the boat in search of his fortune in gold, accidentally interrupts this meeting. An awkward silence gives way quickly enough, and the deeply satisfying novel, The Luminaries, begins to unwind its yarn. This is not a novel to be taken lightly — given also that it’s a massive tome that rounds off at 832
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