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Original Title:	The Luminaries
ISBN:	0316074314 (ISBN13: 9780316074315)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New Zealand
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (2013), Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee (2014), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (2013), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for International Book (2014), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2014) Walter Scott Prize Nominee (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2013), Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Fiction (NZ Post Awards) (2014), RSL Encore Award Nominee (2013), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2015)

The Luminaries Hardcover | Pages: 848 pages

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Title	:	The Luminaries
Author	:	Eleanor Catton
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First U.S. Edition: October 2013
Pages	:	Pages: 848 pages
Published	:	October 15th 2013 by Little, Brown and Company (first published August 24th 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery

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It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute 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 ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.

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This is my speech for the launch of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries at Unity Books in Wellington, 3 August 2013. 'Fergus' is Fergus Barrowman, my husband, and Ellie's New Zealand Publisher. I was honoured that Ellie asked me to launch her novel.http://bit.ly/16T1j5h

EXCELLENT! It's really a masterpiece and hard to wrap my head around the idea that the author Eleanor Catton was only 28 when she wrote it and she won the Man Booker. Brilliant! IT took me a while to read it because the book is very dense. There's a lot to process all the time, however once you get past page 300 I feel things get a lot easier to process. I recommend the hardcover because the typography is well spaced in comparison to the paperback. Definitely a must read.

This needs no review, except to say that reading this was an experience I'll not soon forget (akin to reading The Goldfinch), and it has quickly become one of my favorite books of the year, if not of all time.-----Favorite Quotes::"Some folks are dealt a bad hand. But you can't rely on another person's conscience to live the life you want to live. You make do with what you're given; you struggle on.""For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself

Aries the Ram thrusts forward, discarding the past except as a symbol of what has been overcome. Fearsome, single-minded Aries! This book does not fall under the sign of Aries; it is invested in the past, it is enchanted by it. The past is such an important part of the novel that the narrative continues after its climactic resolution with a series of escalating chapters that take the reader back to where it all began. The Luminaries' characters live under the shadow of their own pasts, they

This is my speech for the launch of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries at Unity Books in Wellington, 3 August 2013. 'Fergus' is Fergus Barrowman, my husband, and Ellie's New Zealand Publisher. I was honoured that Ellie asked me to launch her novel.http://bit.ly/16T1j5h