The Bone People

Type

Book

Authors

Hulme, Keri

ISBN 10

0330485415

ISBN 13

9780330485418

Tags

Contemporary, Maori (New Zealand people), Mute persons, New Zealand fiction, New Zealand, Shipwrecks, Women painters, Racially mixed people, Social isolation

Abstract

A story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her 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.

Description

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

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: New Zealand fiction
Romance fiction
Psychological fiction
Fiction
Love stories
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Keri Hulme
ISBN: 0330485415 9780330485418
OCLC Number: 59550667
Notes: Originally published: Wellington : Spiral, 1984.
Novel by a New Zealand author.
Awards: Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1985
Description: ix, 546 pages ; 20 cm
Responsibility: Keri Hulme.

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