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~ Winner of the Booker Prize, the Governor General's Award - 2013

The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men.

Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.

“The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton is an entire narrative universe with its own mysterious cosmology.  This exhilarating feat of literary design dazzles with masterful storytelling.  Each character is a planet: complex and brilliantly revealed through precise sensual prose that illuminates greed, fear, jealousy, longing, and all that it means to be human.” -- Jury Citation, Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction