The Bone People
of Keri Hulme
Description
The powerful, visionary, Booker Awardâwinning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. âThis book is just amazingly, wondrously great.â âAlice WalkerIn a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitorâa speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simonâs feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where indigenous and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge.Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 450 pages
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Publication Date October 7th 1986
- First Publication 10/28/84
- Language English
- ISBN 9780140089226
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['New Zealand']
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