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050 14$aPR9639.4.C39$bL86 2013
082 04$a823.92
100 1 $aCatton, Eleanor,$d1985-
245 14$aThe luminaries :$ba novel /$cEleanor Catton.
250 $a1st United States ed.
260 $aNew York :$bLittle, Brown,$c2013.
300 $a834 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013."--Verso of title page.
505 0 $aA sphere within a sphere -- Auguries - The house of self-undoing -- Paenga-wha-wha -- Weight and lucre -- The widowand the weeds -- Domicile -- The truth about Aurora -- Mutable Earth -- Matters of succession -- Orion sets when Scorpio rises -- The old moon in the young moon's arms.
520 $aThis novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-miningfrontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in NewZealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands ina gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand tomake his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering oftwelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.
650 0$aCriminal investigation$zNew Zealand$vFiction.
650 0$aProstitutes$vFiction.
650 0$aTrials (Murder)$zNew Zealand$vFiction.
650 0$aImmigrants$zNew Zealand$vFiction.
651 0$aNew Zealand$xHistory$y1853-1876$vFiction.
651 0$aNew Zealand$xGold discoveries$vFiction.