· The Luminaries. Eleanor Catton’s fiendishly clever novel. Both ghost story and gripping mystery, it richly evokes a midth century world of goldrush boom and bust. It is , and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in. The Luminaries is a British-New Zealand drama television miniseries based on Eleanor Catton's novel The Luminaries and directed by Claire www.doorway.ru series is centred on a young adventurer named Anna Wetherell, who has travelled from the United Kingdom to start a new life on the South Island's West Coast during the s West Coast Gold Rush.. The series premiered on TVNZ 1 on 17 . First edition, first impression, signed and dated by the author on the title page in the month of publication, "Eleanor Catton 28 Aug ". The Luminaries won the Booker Prize, and in a miniseries adaptation was released by the same name. Octavo.
"The Luminaries is a breathtakingly ambitious page mystery with a plot as complex and a cast as motley as any 19th-century doorstopper. That Catton's absorbing, hugely elaborate novel is at its heart so simple is a great part of its charm. The Luminaries is a novel by Eleanor Catton. Set in New Zealand's South Island in , the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields. Instead, he stumbles into a tense meeting between twelve local men, and is drawn into a complex mystery involving a series of unsolved crimes. The first paperback edition of this work, the first www.doorway.ru by the author to the title www.doorway.ru of the Man Booker Prize.'The Luminaries' is a novel set in the mid nineteenth century in New Zealand's South Island, in the settlement of Hokitika where many have travelled to find their fortunes on the www.doorway.run by Eleanor.
Eleanor Catton is fiendishly clever. She’s woven these minute details, which seemingly make no sense, but are all part of the gloriously twisted web that is The Luminaries. For example, the value of the gold discovered is exactly pounds. is 2 to the power of 12 and there are 12 chapters. The Luminaries is as carefully executed as a chemistry experiment. Catton is intent on the schema she has used, that of the position of the stars at a particular time according to the 12 houses of. The Luminaries is a British-New Zealand drama television miniseries based on Eleanor Catton 's novel The Luminaries and directed by Claire McCarthy.
0コメント