Description
| Product ID: | 9780330485418 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Bone People |
| Subtitle: | Winner of the Booker Prize |
| Authors: | Author: Estate of Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme |
| Page Count: | 560 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Powerful and visionary, Keri Hulme has written the great New Zealand novel of our times. <p><b>Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, Keri Hulme's <i>The Bone People</i> is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world.<br><br>'In this novel, New Zealand's people, its heritage and landscape are conjured up with uncanny poetry and perceptiveness' – <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>Kerewin's 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. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Maori factory worker with a nasty temper.<br><br>The narrative unravels to reveal the truths that lie behind these three characters, and in so doing displays itself as a huge, ambitious work that tackles the clash between Maori and European characters in beautiful prose of a heartrending poignancy.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-11-09 |
