Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries on the Man Booker Longlist

Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries is one of thirteen novels to make the 2013 Man Booker Longlist.

An astounding feat of storytelling, The Luminaries charts a complex web of crime and mystery, fortune and fate in the unforgiving landscape of the 19th century New Zealand goldrush. A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has attempted suicide, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. What unfolds is a network of chance and destiny as exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

Granta Books publishes The Luminaries 5th September 2013. The Man Booker shortlist is announced on the 10th September.