The Bone People, 9780330485418
Paperback
Lost souls find solace in a strange, transformative family.

The Bone People

Winner of the Booker Prize

$22.80

  • Paperback

    560 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 2002

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Summary

“The Bone People” is a love story. It begins when a mute six-year-old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and into the home of a despairing artist. Kerwin has given up everything but drinking, thinking and fishing, but the arrival of the boy Simon, and later on, of his Maori foster-father Joe, drags them all into the gyre of possibilities. Cruel, funny, ardent and beautiful, “The Bone People” is a powerful and visionary New Zealand fable.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780330485418
ISBN-10:0330485415
Author:Keri Hulme
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:560
Edition:2nd
Release Date:1 January 2002
Weight:392g
Dimensions:197mm x 131mm x 35mm
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Critics Review

‘In this novel, New Zealand’s people, its heritage and landscape are conjured up with uncanny poetry and perceptiveness’ Sunday Times

About The Author

Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme has Kai Tahu, Orkney Island and English ancestry and lives at Okarito on the West Coast of New Zealand. She is writer and painter and has published short stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies, and also a book of poetry.

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