The Bone People

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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0807112844
  • ISBN13 9780807112847
  • Publish Date 1 October 1985 (first published 1 July 1985)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 2 June 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Louisiana State University Press
  • Edition Us ed.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 450
  • Language English
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