The luminaries : a novel
(Book)

"Back Bay Books" --T.p.

Includes reading group guide.

"First published in hardcover in the United States by Little, Brown and Company, October 2013. First Back Bay paperback edition, October 2014." --T.p. verso.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize. A New York Times notable book of the year. --Cover.

"It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 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 cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into 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, [this] is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement." --P. [4] of cover.