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The Bone People
Keri Hulme
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Description for The Bone People
Paperback. Powerful and visionary, Keri Hulme has written the great New Zealand novel of our times. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 400.
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, The Bone People is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Maori factory worker with a nasty temper. The narrative unravels to reveal the truths that lie behind these three characters, and in so doing displays itself as a ... Read more
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, The Bone People is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Maori factory worker with a nasty temper. The narrative unravels to reveal the truths that lie behind these three characters, and in so doing displays itself as a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330485418
SKU
V9780330485418
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Ref
99-50
About Keri Hulme
Keri Hulme has Kai Tahu, Orkney Island and English ancestry and lives on the West Coast, South Island, Aotearoa - New Zealand. She is a writer and painter, author books including short stories, poetry and essays - and a libretto. Her first novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985.
Reviews for The Bone People
'In this novel, New Zealand's people, its heritage and landscape are conjured up with uncanny poetry and perceptiveness' Sunday Times