An edition of The Bone People (1983)

The Bone People.

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An edition of The Bone People (1983)

The Bone People.

  • 4.17 ·
  • 6 Ratings
  • 63 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 10 Have read

In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, 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 Maori 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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Cover of: The bone people
The bone people
2010, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The Bone People
The Bone People
November 9, 2001, Picador
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Unter dem Tagmond
Unter dem Tagmond: Roman
1993, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl.
Paperback in German - Einmalige Sonderausg., limitierte Sonderausg.
Cover of: The Bone People
The Bone People: A Novel
1986, Penguin
Paperback in English
Cover of: The bone people
The bone people: a novel
1986, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The Bone People
The Bone People
July 4, 1986, Picador
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Bone People.
The Bone People.
1986, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
Cover of: The bone people
The bone people: a novel
1985, Louisiana State University Press
in English - U.S. ed.
Cover of: Bone People
Bone People
July 1, 1985, Spiral Pr
Hardcover

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Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PR9639.3.H75

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23115934M
Internet Archive
bonepeople00hulm
ISBN 10
0140089225
ISBN 13
9780140089226
Library Thing
32418
Goodreads
460635

Work Description

At once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People is a powerful and unsettling tale saturated with violence and Maori spirituality.

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November 30, 2022 Edited by OnFrATa Merge works (MRID: 30611)
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February 18, 2009 Created by ImportBot Imported from San Francisco Public Library MARC record.