The Luminaries One on One with Eleanor Catton

Saturday, September 20, 2014 - 7:00pm

Centretown United Church
507 Bank Street
Ottawa, ON
K2P 1Z5

Join us in welcoming Eleanor Catton back to Canada’s capital.

Set during the heady days of New Zealand’s Gold Rush, The Luminaries, Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award for Fiction, is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. Dickens meets Deadwood in this internationally celebrated phenomenon.

Part mystery, part fantastical love story, and intricately structured around the zodiac and the golden mean (each chapter is half the length of the preceding one), The Luminaries weaves together the changing fates and fortunes of an entire community, one where everyone has something to hide. Rich with character and event, it is a gripping page-turner – and a unique, atmospheric world – in which readers will gladly lose themselves. It confirms Eleanor Catton’s reputation as one of the most exciting and innovative novelists writing today.

For more information on the event as well as ticket purchase, please visit
http://www.writersfestival.org/events/fall-2014/the-luminaries-one-on-on...