Boekdetails
Formaat
Luisterboek
Taal
Engels
Gepubliceerd
Oct 7, 2014
Uitgever
Brilliance Audio
ISBN-10
1491512121
ISBN-13
9781491512128
Beschrijving
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems…. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. Eleanor Catton was only 22 when she wrote The Rehearsal , which Adam Ross in the New York Times Book Review praised as "a wildly brilliant and precocious first novel" and Joshua Ferris called "a mesmerizing, labyrinthine, intricately patterned and astonishingly original novel." The Luminaries amply confirms that early promise, and secures Catton''''s reputation as one of the most dazzling and inventive young writers at work today.
Genres
Mysterie
Sciencefiction
Geschiedenis
Horror
Humor
Business & Economie
Recensies
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3.5 rounded down.I think a lot of this book was lost on me, and I'm not sure if it's my ability to understand it or if the intricacies don't translate well over audio book. I was painfully underwhelmed at the end of the book, came here to read what other people were saying, and learned a lot about it that never occured to me as I was listening. Clearly, I grossly misunderstood what was happening.It's possible I'll decide to read the thing in print later, so this rating might change in the future.
May 31st 2018