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The Bone People

The Bone People

Hulme, Keri

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Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0140089225
ISBN13: 9780140089226
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Oct 7 1986
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Awards: Man Booker Prize
The powerful, visionary, Booker Award-winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage

This book is just amazingly, wondrously great. --Alice Walker

In 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 visitor--a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's 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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