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The Luminaries

By Eleanor Catton

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 848

When a fortune hunter sets off for the gold fields of New Zealand in 1866, he becomes involved with a secret tribunal of 12 local men, in this thrillingly labyrinthine novel.

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