Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries is one of thirteen novels to make the 2013 Man Booker Longlist.
An astounding feat of storytelling, The Luminaries charts a complex web of crime and mystery, fortune and fate in the unforgiving landscape of the 19th century New Zealand goldrush. A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has attempted suicide, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. What unfolds is a network of chance and destiny as exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
Granta Books publishes The Luminaries 5th September 2013. The Man Booker shortlist is announced on the 10th September.
