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The Bone People

Estate of Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme

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Powerful and visionary, Keri Hulme has written the great New Zealand novel of our times.

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, Keri Hulme's 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.'In this novel, New Zealand's people, its heritage and landscape are conjured up with uncanny poetry and perceptiveness' - Sunday TimesKerewin's 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 huge, ambitious work that tackles the clash between Maori and European characters in beautiful prose of a heartrending poignancy.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
560
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
ISBN:
9780330485418
Published Date:
9/11/2001
Dimensions:
197mm x 131mm x 35mm
Weight:
392g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

RRP: £12.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780330485418


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