{"product_id":"9780316126953","title":"The Luminaries","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as \"a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly.\"--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, THE LUMINARIES is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement. It richly confirms that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament.","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121101029616,"sku":"9780316126953","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316126953_p0.jpg?v=1763679314","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316126953","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}