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The luminaries / Eleanor Catton.

Summary:

"From the award-winning author of THE REHEARSAL comes a bold neo-Victorian murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. In 1866, a weary Englishman 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: the town's wealthiest man has vanished." -- Provided by the Publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780771019104 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780771023248 (trade pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 832 p. : ill. ; 24cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : McClelland & Stewart ; 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:january.14
Novel.
Subject: Gold mines and mining > New Zealand > Fiction.
Small cities > New Zealand > Fiction.
Criminal investigation > New Zealand > Fiction.
Astrology > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
British > New Zealand > Fiction.
Immigrants > New Zealand > Fiction.
Trials (Murder) > New Zealand > Fiction.
Prostitutes > Fiction.
New Zealand > Fiction.
New Zealand > Gold discoveries > Fiction.
Genre: Canadian fiction
Suspense fiction
Historical fiction

Available copies

  • 31 of 32 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 32 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Castlegar Public Library FIC CAT (Text) 35146001826767 Fiction Volume hold Available -

ELEANOR CATTON is the author of the international bestseller The Luminaries, winner of the Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal, won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Award, and the NZ Society of Authors’ Best First Book Award, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Writers Prize, and longlisted for the Orange Prize. As a screenwriter, she adapted The Luminaries for television, and Jane Austen’s Emma for feature film. Born in 1985 in London, Ontario, and raised in New Zealand, she now lives in Cambridge, England.


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