01432cam a2200289u  450000500170000000700030001700800410002001000150006102000250007604000230010105000270012410000370015124500480018825000330023626000500026926400130031930000410033233600210037333700250039433800230041952005070044258600350094965000370098465100460102165100440106765500310111120190501163912.0ta140318t2013    nyua          000 1 eng    a2013941814  a9780316074315c27.00  aDLCbengerdacDLC14aPR9639.4.C39bL86 20131 aCatton, Eleanor,d1985-eauthor.14aThe luminaries :ba novel cEleanor Catton.  aFirst United States edition. 1aNew York :bLittle, Brown and Company,c2013. 4c♭2013.  a834 pages :billustrations ;c25 cm.  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aArriving 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 implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.  aMan Booker Prize Winner, 2013. 0aCriminal investigationvFiction. 0aNew ZealandxHistoryy1853-1876vFiction. 0aNew ZealandxGold discoveriesvFiction. 7aHistorical fiction.2gsafd