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.
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
發表於2024-09-23
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今年年頭的時候,南半球的夏天,我和好友S去新西蘭遊玩,因為不是自駕,全程幾乎都是坐大巴。新西蘭的大巴司機挺有意思,路上會帶上麥剋風和旅客聊風景。然後某一程上,司機大叔介紹瞭一本小說,說這本小說講新西蘭淘金時代的故事,好評如潮,他的原話是’international sensat...
評分In 2011, former MI5 chief, Dame Stella Rimington, stirred a controversy, when as the chair of the Booker Prize jury, she stressed upon readability as one of the driving criteria for their judgement. Another judge clarified that the plot has to zip along. Th...
評分In 2011, former MI5 chief, Dame Stella Rimington, stirred a controversy, when as the chair of the Booker Prize jury, she stressed upon readability as one of the driving criteria for their judgement. Another judge clarified that the plot has to zip along. Th...
評分 評分In 2011, former MI5 chief, Dame Stella Rimington, stirred a controversy, when as the chair of the Booker Prize jury, she stressed upon readability as one of the driving criteria for their judgement. Another judge clarified that the plot has to zip along. Th...
圖書標籤: 布剋奬 小說 EleanorCatton 英國 英國文學 埃莉諾·卡頓 2013 新西蘭
感覺這麼多年英語白學瞭...
評分實在看不完 大約還有四分之一我棄瞭 全程非常乏味 淘金 seance 這樣的題材都寫不齣好內容i don't know what?? 我好像還在網站上等瞭一陣子的藍色軟本 偶爾丟一些占星知識齣來也是非常淺顯 還不如占星術殺人事件有創意 看的不是內容 是期待
評分4.5星。19世紀的新西蘭淘金故事,intrigue層層展開,人物性格很閤12星座,尤其我覺得其中Ah Sook感覺好中國,作為一個西方作者,實在不容易。美中不足的是有些小細節比如Anna's starving之類感覺最後也沒說清楚。
評分不錯
評分這種事無巨細地描述角色性格、經曆和行為動機有些讓我想到《一句頂一萬句》,兩者因而也都必然觸及瞭人與人之間的無法理解和難以排解的孤獨。不過本書相比而言更溫暖一些。 占星的術語我並不能理解深意,靈異內容也略有些frustrating,並且Anna和Crosbie的過去讓我覺得有些不太能理解,但除此之外沒有什麼覺得不滿的。 Crosbie和阿蘇故事最為讓我悲傷。
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