by Eleanor Catton · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416208326
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On the coast of New Zealand, in 1866, during the gold rush, a prostitute is arrested, a rich man disappears, and a great fortune is discovered. Twelve men gather to discuss these events, but the arrival of a stranger, Walter Moody, further complicates the situation. Moody becomes entangled in a web of destinies and fortunes as intricate as the night sky. Winner of the Man Booker Prize, this novel is a feat that reveals the human soul in all its despair and conflict.
Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, written as her Master's thesis, was published in 2008, and has been adapted into a 2016 film of the same name. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Booker Prize, making Catton the youngest author ever to win the prize and only the second New Zealander. It was subsequently adapted into a television miniseries, with Catton as screenwriter. In 2023, she was named on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
