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- 848 páginas
- 30 horas de lectura
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<b>Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and set during the heady days of New Zealand’s Gold Rush,<i> The Luminaries</i> is</b> <b>a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. Dickens meets <i>Deadwood </i>in this internationally celebrated phenomenon.</b> In January 1866, young Walter Moody lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the west coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind a family scandal. 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: the town’s wealthiest man has vanished. An enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. A prostitute has supposedly tried to end her life. But nothing is quite as it seems. As the men share their stories, what emerges is an intricate network of alliances and betrayals, secrets and lies, that is as exquisitely patterned as the night sky. Part mystery, part fantastical love story, and intricately structured around the zodiac and the golden mean (each chapter is half the length of the preceding one), <i>The Luminaries</i> weaves together the changing fates and fortunes of an entire community, one where everyone has something to hide. Rich with character and event, it is a gripping page-turner – and a unique, atmospheric world – in which readers will gladly lose themselves. It confirms Eleanor Catton’s reputation as one of the most exciting and innovative novelists writing today.
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The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2013
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda),
- Estado del libro
- Bueno
- Precio
- 12,49 €
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- Título
- The Luminaries
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Eleanor Catton
- Editorial
- Emblem Editions
- Publicado en
- 2013
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 848
- ISBN10
- 0771023243
- ISBN13
- 9780771023248
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Tema histórico, Novelas de crimen, Mujeres, Ficción contemporánea, Misterioso, Siglo XXI, Literatura Canadiense, Premio Booker
- Descripción
- <b>Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and set during the heady days of New Zealand’s Gold Rush,<i> The Luminaries</i> is</b> <b>a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. Dickens meets <i>Deadwood </i>in this internationally celebrated phenomenon.</b> In January 1866, young Walter Moody lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the west coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind a family scandal. 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: the town’s wealthiest man has vanished. An enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. A prostitute has supposedly tried to end her life. But nothing is quite as it seems. As the men share their stories, what emerges is an intricate network of alliances and betrayals, secrets and lies, that is as exquisitely patterned as the night sky. Part mystery, part fantastical love story, and intricately structured around the zodiac and the golden mean (each chapter is half the length of the preceding one), <i>The Luminaries</i> weaves together the changing fates and fortunes of an entire community, one where everyone has something to hide. Rich with character and event, it is a gripping page-turner – and a unique, atmospheric world – in which readers will gladly lose themselves. It confirms Eleanor Catton’s reputation as one of the most exciting and innovative novelists writing today.