The Luminaries

Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, Eleanor Catton, 27, completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2007 and won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for her first novel, The Rehearsal, which was also long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop as the recipient of the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship. She lives in New Zealand.

出版者:Little Brown and Company

作者:Eleanor Catton

页数:848

出版时间:2013-10-15

价格:USD 27.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780316074315

图书标签:布克奖小说EleanorCatton英国英国文学埃莉诺·卡顿2013新西兰

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From the acclaimed author of The Rehearsal comes a novel about a young woman on trial for murder in nineteenth-century New Zealand.

On a blustery January day, a prostitute is arrested. In the midst of the 1866 gold rush on the coast of New Zealand, this might have gone unnoticed. But three notable events occur on that same day: a luckless drunk dies, a wealthy man vanishes, and a ship's captain of ill repute cancels all of his business and weighs anchor, as if making an escape. Anna Wetherell, the prostitute in question, is connected to all three men.

This sequence of apparently coincidental events provokes a secret council of powerful townsmen to investigate. But they are interrupted by the arrival of a stranger: young Walter Moody, who has a secret of his own...

THE LUMINARIES is an intricately crafted feat of storytelling, a mystery that reveals the ways our interconnected lives reshape our destinies.

Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize

读后感

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用户评价

19世纪新西兰淘金潮背景的悬疑故事。对于喜欢悬疑故事的读者来说，不推荐！冗长，重复已知内容不止一遍，花里胡哨太多。

好了，我去看星盘了

19世纪新西兰淘金潮背景的悬疑故事。对于喜欢悬疑故事的读者来说，不推荐！冗长，重复已知内容不止一遍，花里胡哨太多。

"writers'/critics' wet dream"

好了，我去看星盘了