Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, Eleanor Catton, 27, completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2007 and won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for her first novel, The Rehearsal, which was also long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop as the recipient of the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship. She lives in New Zealand.
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 ship's 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.
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize
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評分一本八百多页的超长篇小说,你可能需要花一周甚至更多的时间来阅读,你最想在里面获得什么?如果你费很大的劲读完了,发现这本书讲的故事概括起来一点也不惊人,人物也没有让你觉得有任何共鸣,甚至你觉得有点扁平,你会失望地丢下这本书打个差评,还是会回过头来看,到底这本...
評分我想我是因為自己在紐西蘭呆了一年 去過霍基蒂卡與但尼丁 知道這些地理環境 也瞭解一些毛利文化 再加上幾個博物館看過淘金時期的資料 尤其一些中國人留下的地圖與影像 https://youtu.be/xUPmQLt7Vrc 這印象對我閱讀這本書幫助很大 不過我向來討厭多人同譯一書 那表示翻譯過...
“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
评分不錯
评分感覺這麼多年英語白學瞭...
评分讀瞭前麵二十頁已經有種棄掉的感覺瞭……這絮絮叨叨卻又缺乏力度的文風我也是有點撐不起
评分"writers'/critics' wet dream"
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