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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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Man Booker Prize Winner, Widowers, Maori (New Zealand people), Racially mixed people, Mute persons, Commitment (Psychology), award:man_booker_prize=1985, Fiction, Boys, Social isolation, Women painters, Shipwrecks, New Zealand fiction, New zealand, fiction, Women artists, fiction, Widowers, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Pakiwaitara, Tāngata, Tikanga tuku iho, Noho-ā-iwi, Aronganui, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, romance, general, ArtistsPlaces
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Unter dem Tagmond: Roman
1993, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl.
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3596119057 9783596119059
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The bone people: a novel
1985, Louisiana State University Press
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0807112844 9780807112847
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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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