{"product_id":"the-luminaries-a-novel-man-booker-prize","title":"The Luminaries: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)","description":"\u003cp\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.\"-New York Times Book Review  It is 1866  and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealands 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.  Richly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983938220085,"sku":"ByrdShop_0316074314","price":26.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780316074315.jpg?v=1770814883","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-luminaries-a-novel-man-booker-prize","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}