The luminaries a novel Catton, Eleanor 1985- creator author. text novel Fiction. History. Suspense fiction. Historical fiction. nyu 2013 First United States edition. monographic eng print 834 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving 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. A sphere within a sphere -- Auguries -- The house of self-undoing -- Paenga-wha-wha -- Weight and lucre -- The widow and 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. Eleanor Catton. "Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013"--Title page verso. Governor General's Award, 2013. Man Booker Prize, 2013 u-nz--- Immigrants New Zealand Fiction Criminal investigation New Zealand Fiction New Zealand History 1853-1876 Fiction New Zealand Gold discoveries Fiction Prostitutes Fiction Trials (Murder) New Zealand Fiction Criminal investigation Gold mines and mining Immigrants Prostitutes Trials (Murder) New Zealand 1853 - 1876 fast PR9639.4.C39 L86 2013 823/.92 0316074314 9780316074315 : 2013941814 YDXCP 130208 20140810070733.0 in00003413535 eng