Knots
The novel itself is a big tangle of different stories, details, and clues—and in that way, it's kind of like a messy ball of yarn. Walter Moody himself kind of seems to make that analogy when he...
Gold and Pounamu
The novel is set during the New Zealand gold rush, so is it really a surprise that gold is kind of a big fat deal here? In addition to it being somehow key to almost every character's profession, a...
Planets, Stars, and Luminaries
As you already know by this point (we hope), the book takes planets and zodiac signs pretty seriously and uses them to symbolize and draw attention to certain aspects of the characters and their ac...