Lights

We present to readers a novel - laureate of the 2013 Buker Prize and, perhaps, the most striking event in the history of this prestigious award. The book broke two reeds at once: "Lights" - the largest work in the entire history of the award, and Eleanor Katton is the youngest laureate (28 years old) So, welcome to New Zealand in the midst of gold fever. Twelve people - including a priest, a pharmacist, a publisher of a local newspaper, two Chinese and native -maorias - converge in the back room of a haggard hotel to discuss several mysterious incidents in which they were somehow confused: a fantastically successful young man who belongs to the lion"s share of local ones disappeared without a trace. sites, and in the hut of the poor prospector who died the same night, a huge golden treasure was discovered, after which the most popular of the night butterflies of the hokotiki resolutely embarked on the path of correction. Twelve conspirators laid everything out as a stranger who accidentally gone into their ranks. There are shipwrecks, and smuggling gold, and blackmail, and unhappy love, fraud, revenge, random shots, a spiritualistic session and the court, there are missing cargo containers, and hidden documents, and lost conditions. It would seem that "luminaries" is a kind old detective like "Women in White" Wilki Collins. However, the structure of the book is based on astrology: the author hoped the movement of stars and planets as the plot has developed, because the characters are associated with celestial bodies. Twelve "star" heroes corresponding to the zodiac signs, and seven "planetary" - all rotate around the hero - “land”, killed under mysterious circumstances