Eleanor Catton Boeken

The astonishing and epic second novel from the prize-winning author of The Rehearsal - a sure contender for every major literary prize. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the 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 whore 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. The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction, which more than fulfils the promise of The Rehearsal. Like that novel, it is full of narrative, linguistic and psychological pleasures, and has a fiendishly clever and original structuring device. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery. It is a thrilling achievement for someone still in her mid-twenties, and will confirm for critics and readers that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the move... A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. But they hadn't figured on the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine, who also has an interest in the place. Can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other? A propulsive literary thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama and immersion in character. It is a brilliantly constructed tale of intentions, actions and consequences, and an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned.But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker--or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira, Birnam Wood, and their entrepreneurial spirit, he suggests they work this land. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other?A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama, and immersion in character. A brilliantly constructed consideration of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On 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 whore 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.

A dazzlingly assured and bold novel revolving around a school sex scandal. An exhilarating and provocative novel about the unsimple mess of human desire, at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrew expose of emotional compromise.

Itak, dobro pozhalovat v Novuiu Zelandiiu v samyi razgar zolotoi likhoradki. Dvenadtcat chelovek †vkliuchaia sviashchennika, aptekaria, izdatelia mestnoi gazety, dvukh kitaitcev i tuzemtca-maori †skhodiatsia v zadnei komnate zakhudaloi gostinitcy obsudit neskolko tainstvennykh proisshestvii, v kotorye oni tak ili inache okazalis vputany... Bessledno ischez fantasticheski udachlivyi iunosha, kotoromu prinadlezhit lvinaia dolia mestnykh uchastkov, a v khizhine umershego toi zhe nochiu bednogo staratelia obnaruzhilsia ogromnyi zolotoi klad, posle chego samaia populiarnaia iz nochnykh babochek Khokitiki reshitelno vstala na put ispravleniia. Dvenadtcat zagovorshchikov vykladyvaiut vse kak na dukhu sluchaino zatesavshemusia v ikh riady neznakomtcu. Tut i korablekrusheniia, i kontrabandnoe zoloto, i shantazh, i neschastnaia liubov, moshennichestvo, mest, sluchainye vystrely, spiriticheskii seans i sud; est tut i propavshie gruzovye konteinery, i spriatannye dokumenty, i poteriannye sostoianiia. Kazalos by, Svetila †eto dobryi staryi detektiv napodobie Zhenshchiny v belom Uilki Kollinza. Odnako struktura knigi osnovyvaetsia na astrologii: avtor rasschityvala dvizhenie zvezd i planet po mere razvitiia siuzheta, ved deistvuiushchie litca sviazany s nebesnymi telami. Dvenadtcat zvezdnykh geroev, sootvetstvuiushchikh zodiakalnym znakam, i sem planetarnykh †vse vrashchaiutsia vokrug geroia-zemli, ubitogo pri tainstvennykh obstoiatelstvakh.