11 сент. 2013 г. · Catton's epic novel about the New Zealand goldrush has been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Kirsty Gunn weighs up an intricately crafted shaggy dog story.

16 окт. 2013 г. · “The Luminaries” is a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, ...

Оценка 3,8 (9 621) · 12,99 $ 24 авг. 2013 г. · Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, ...

11 окт. 2013 г. · Vividly set in the gold rush of the mid-1860s, The Luminaries is, on this level, a fairly straightforward page-turner in the “sensation novel” ...

8 сент. 2013 г. · Eleanor Catton's Booker contender is a mesmerising tale of murder and mystery set in 19th-century New Zealand

The Luminaries shows how easily we're satisfied with partial truths. In this place of new starts, truth, like men, are fabrications. Even though it's a doorstop ...

14 янв. 2014 г. · I am utterly awestruck by Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries. It's a feat of storytelling unlike anything I've ever experienced with a novel ...

30 авг. 2023 г. · This book, published in 2013 (and the 2013 Booker Prize winner) is a difficult read. It's long and has a complicated plot, with multiple inscrutable characters.

Оценка 4,0 (11 394) · 46,28 $ The book is intricate, intelligent and challenging to read, with multiple points of view that serve in carrying the plot's baton forward. Catton is a talented ...

30 апр. 2018 г. · The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.