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The novel won the Booker Prize in 2013 and, perhaps, the most striking event in the history of this prestigious award. The book broke two records at once: “The Luminaries” is the largest work in the history of the award, and Elinor Catton is the youngest laureate (28 years old).

Welcome to New Zealand in the midst of the gold rush. Twelve people - including a priest, a pharmacist, a local newspaper publisher, two Chinese and a Maori native - gather in the back room of a run-down hotel to discuss several mysterious incidents in which they have somehow become involved: a fantastically successful young man, who owns the lion's share of the locals, has disappeared without a trace. plots, and in the hut of a poor prospector who died that same night, a huge gold treasure was discovered.

There are shipwrecks, smuggled gold, blackmail, unhappy love, fraud, revenge, accidental shots, a seance and a trial; There are missing cargo containers, hidden documents, and lost fortunes.