"The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light— grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores."

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About Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand novelist best known for The Luminaries, which won the 2013 Booker Prize. She was the youngest winner of the prize at the time of that award.

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