The Luminaries

　　本書入圍2013年曼布克獎決選！

　　1866年，來自英國的華特經過漫長的海上航行，抵達了紐西蘭的海岸小鎮。他準備在這裡完成掏金夢。當華特抵達旅館時，卻發現裡面竟然擠了十二個男人，不論是外貌或穿著都截然不同，構成了世界上最奇異的畫面，而他們正準備找出犯罪事件的線索：富商的離奇消失，妓女的自殺未遂，而遺留下來的財富，將華特捲進一場人性的鬥爭遊戲….（文／博客來編譯）

　　From the author of The Rehearsal and shortlisted for the 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 mystery: 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.