Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where indigenous and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge. Hulme's writing explores themes of isolation, postcolonial and multicultural identity, and Maori, Celtic, and Norse mythology. Keri Hulme, The Bone People 3009 likes Like A family can be the bane of one's existence.
As Kerewin succumbs to Simon’s feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Her novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985 1 she was the first New Zealander to win the award, and also the first writer to win the prize for a debut novel. The Bone People by Keri Hulme 21,744 ratings, 4.05 average rating, 2,060 reviews Open Preview The Bone People Quotes Showing 1-15 of 15 You want to know about anybody See what books they read, and how they've been read.
One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor-a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. “This book is just amazingly, wondrously great.” -Alice Walker The powerful, visionary, Booker Award–winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage
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