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The Luminaries

by Eleanor Catton · 2013

Literary Fiction · ranked #47 in category

Winner · The Booker Prize, 2013

In 1866, on the goldfields of New Zealand's West Coast, a young man stumbles into a meeting of twelve men who have gathered secretly to discuss four unsolved mysteries. Catton's Booker Prize-winning novel is structured around astrological charts and is one of the most formally elaborate works in contemporary fiction — a Victorian detective novel that turns its genre inside out.

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The verdict

Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2013 · 2010s
Author
Eleanor Catton
Standing
Essential Read

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