A mid-1800s New Zealand gold rush. Twelve men secretly meeting on a rainy night each caught in the net of a Victorian mystery. At the center of that mystery...a woman of course and a fortune in gold that switches hands no less than eight times.
Eleanor Catton's "The Luminaries" is a massive 800+ page literary novel with a complex storyline woven together with many threads. This Summary & Review serves to give the reader a grounding in the multi-faceted plot of this phenomenal literary novel. This ebook covers Part 1's - 350 pages which sets up and lays the groundwork for this mystery. The rest of the novel is spent unraveling that mystery piece by piece.
The nearly twenty main characters are succinctly fleshed out in this Summary & Review as well which helps you the reader to quickly lock on to each personality from the onset of the novel.
If you presently lack the leisure time to tackle "The Luminaries" this Summary & Review will sufficiently inform you about "the" book everyone is talking about since receiving the 2013 Man Booker Prize. You won't find yourself locked out of discussions of this book at the office cooler or at parties.
But definitely do put "The Luminaries" on your "Must Do" list.
You don't want to miss fully immersing yourself in the delicious rough and tumble world of New Zealand's Victorian Era gold fields.
And use this Summary and Review as a reference guide; as a springboard to quickly insert yourself into the world that Eleanor Catton has so richly and immaculately created.