The Luminaries - Winner of the Booker Prize 2013
Verlag | Granta Books |
Auflage | 2014 |
Seiten | 832 |
Format | 12,1 x 19,4 x 5,3 cm |
Gewicht | 560 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 184708432X |
EAN | 9781847084323 |
Bestell-Nr | 84708432UA |
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, "The Luminaries" is an extraordinary piece of fiction. It is full of narrative, linguistic and psychological pleasures, and has a fiendishly clever and original structuring device.
Klappentext:
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.