The Lumaniers a very interesting novel by Eleanor Catton

Who are the Luminaries?

The novel starts with the young Walter Moody’s arrival in New Zealand to try his luck as a gold digger in 1866. At the arrival at the hotel he was staying, he met a group of twelve men who were discussing a series of unfortunate events that each one was involved in a way. The incidents that they were talking about were the death of a loner by the name of Crosbie Wells, the intended suicide of the local prostitute, Anna Wetherell and the disappearance of a wealthy young gold digger prodigy, Emery Staines.

The first part of the book consists of each of the men telling why he is in the room and how he is connected to any of the three circumstances. At the end of each narrative. we find out that in all of the stories a name appears, that seems to be involved in all three mysteries: Francis Carver.

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