Description
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 Times
Kerewin'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.
Powerful and visionary, Keri Hulme has written the great New Zealand novel of our times.
About the Author
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
'In this novel, New Zealand's people, its heritage and landscape are conjured up with uncanny poetry and perceptiveness' Sunday Times
Awards
Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1985.
Book Information
ISBN 9780330485418
Author Estate of Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme
Format Paperback
Page Count 560
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 392g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 131mm * 35mm
