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The Luminaries

The Luminaries

31 hrs. 53 min.
Mystery, Thrillers & Action
Language Russian
Narrator Irina Vorobyova
Narrator Irina Vorobyova
Description
Welcome to New Zealand in the middle of the gold rush. Twelve people — including a priest, an apothecary, the publisher of a local newspaper, two Chinese men, and a native Māori — meet in the back room of a rundown hotel to discuss several mysterious incidents they have somehow all been entangled in: a fantastically lucky young man who owns the lion’s share of the local land disappears without a trace; and in the hut of a poor prospector who died that same night, they find a huge stash of gold. After that, Hokitika — the most popular “night butterfly” — decisively sets off on the path of reformation. The twelve conspirators lay everything out openly to an unfamiliar stranger who has somehow slipped into their group. There are shipwrecks, smuggled gold, blackmail, unhappy love, cheating, revenge, random gunshots, a séance, and a trial; there are missing cargo containers, hidden documents, and lost fortunes as well.

It seems that “The Luminaries” is a kind, old-fashioned detective story like Wilkie Collins’s “The Woman in White.” However, the structure of the book is based on astrology: the author calculated the movement of stars and planets as the plot unfolds, since the characters are connected to celestial bodies. Twelve “star” heroes corresponding to the zodiac signs, and seven “planetary” ones — all revolve around the “earth” hero, who was murdered under mysterious circumstances.
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