The Bone People

The powerful, visionary, Booker Award-winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and...
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The Bone People by Hulme, Keri

The Bone People

$24.46

The Bone People

$24.46
Author: Keri Hulme
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



Author: Keri Hulme
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/07/1986
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780140089226
Audience: Young Adult


Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/01/1986

About the Author
Keri Hulme (1947-2021): The Maori novelist, poet, and short story writer who became the first New Zealander to win the Booker Prize for this luminous debut novel. She grew up in Christchurch and Moeraki, New Zealand. She spent much of her time smoking a pipe or cigarillos, playing the guitar, painting, fishing, eating, drinking and cooking. She began two additional novels, each running to hundreds of pages, but they were never finished.

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