The Luminaries

Autor: Catton, Eleanor

Editorial: Little Brown Usa

Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional

ISBN13: 9780316074315

Reseña: 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 ships 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.