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The Bone People Hardcover - 2005

by Keri Hulme; Preface by Keri Hulme


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Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter and a loner, convinced that "to care for anything is to invite disaster." Her isolation is disrupted one day when a six-year-old mute boy, Simon, breaks into her house. The sole survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, Simon has been adopted by a widower Maori factory worker, Joe Gillayley, who is both tender and horribly brutal toward the boy. Through shifting points of view, the novel reveals each character's thoughts and feelings as they struggle with the desire to connect and the fear of attachment.

Compared to the works of James Joyce in its use of indigenous language and portrayal of consciousness, The Bone People captures the soul of New Zealand. After twenty years, it continues to astonish and enrich readers around the world.

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  • Title The Bone People
  • Author Keri Hulme; Preface by Keri Hulme
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 366
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Louisiana State University Press
  • Date 2005-04
  • ISBN 9780807130728 / 0807130729
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.34 x 1.63 in (24.13 x 16.10 x 4.14 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Racially mixed people, Boys
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005272650
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Keri Hulme is of Maori, Scottish, and English ancestry and grew up in Christchurch and Moeraki, New Zealand. She has worked as a fish-'n'-chip cook, tobacco picker, woolen mill winder, census taker, journalist, postmistress, and television director. In 1983 she became a full-time writer. Through a government lottery, she won a plot of land on a remote Westland coast, where she erected an octagonal-shaped dwelling and settled in. She writes, paints, and fishes and has published seven books.

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