'A strange planet that resembles a hypnotized Rabbit'

astrology and the literary fiction of Eleanor Catton and Olga Tokarczuk

When Eleanor Catton’s novel The Luminaries won the 2013 Man-Booker Prize for fiction, the press stumbled over itself in incredulity and praise for the ingenuity of Catton’s accomplishment. They made much of Catton’s young age—only 28 years old and already a literary star!—and tall order—an 830-page novel as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook were fractaling our already-short attention spans, oh my!—but what they really couldn’t get enough of was the astrology of it all.