The Bone People: Booker Prize Winner (A Novel) - Softcover

Hulme, Keri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140089225 ISBN 13: 9780140089226

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

The powerful, visionary, Booker Award-winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage "This book is just amazingly, wondrously great." --Alice Walker In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, 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 indigenous 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.

About this title

Review:

"An original, overwhelming, near-great work of literature."
--The Washington Post

"Unforgettably rich and pungent."
--The New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140089225
• ISBN 13: 9780140089226
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464