The luminaries: a novel

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This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, 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 …

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Full title :The luminaries : a novel / Eleanor Catton

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013
Edition:First United States edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Little, Brown
Place of Publication:New York, N.Y
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013

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"Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013.

The Physical Object

Description:834 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780316074315, 0316074314
oclc:ocn900154026
LC Classification:PR9639.4.C39
Dewey Decimal:823 .92

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