The Luminaries
2013 novel by Eleanor Catton / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton.[2] Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields. Instead, he stumbles into a tense meeting between twelve local men, and is drawn into a complex mystery involving a series of unsolved crimes.[3] The novel's complex structure is based on the system of Western astrology, with each of the twelve local men representing one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, and with another set of characters representing planets in the solar system.
Author | Eleanor Catton |
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Cover artist | Jenny Grigg[1] |
Country | New Zealand |
Language | English |
Published | 2013 (2013) Victoria University Press (New Zealand), Granta Books (UK), Little, Brown and Company (North America) |
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Pages | 848 pp. |
Awards | Booker Prize 2013 |
ISBN | 978-1-84708-431-6 |
OCLC | 851827301 |
The novel has won many awards and honours, including the 2013 Booker Prize. It was adapted into the BBC/TVNZ miniseries The Luminaries in 2020.[4][5] In 2022, it was included on the "Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.[6]