The bone people
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9780140089226
9780143116455
9780143116455
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| Grouped Work ID | 4a5215b1-acd8-c6e1-7283-45bd303c5f9a |
|---|---|
| Grouping Title | bone people |
| Grouping Author | keri hulme |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-08-22 05:08:41AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-09-05 05:14:30AM |
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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. 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. 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. 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. Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.
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9780140089226
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1986
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Penguin Books
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Boys -- Fiction
Commitment (Psychology) -- Fiction
Fiction
Māori (New Zealand people) -- Fiction
Multiracial people -- Fiction
Mute persons -- Fiction
New Zealand -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Shipwrecks -- Fiction
Social isolation -- Fiction
Widowers -- Fiction
Women painters -- Fiction
Commitment (Psychology) -- Fiction
Fiction
Māori (New Zealand people) -- Fiction
Multiracial people -- Fiction
Mute persons -- Fiction
New Zealand -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Shipwrecks -- Fiction
Social isolation -- Fiction
Widowers -- Fiction
Women painters -- Fiction
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The bone people
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The bone people / Keri Hulme
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The bone people
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Boys
Commitment (Psychology)
Māori (New Zealand people)
Multiracial people
Mute persons
Shipwrecks
Social isolation
Widowers
Women painters
Commitment (Psychology)
Māori (New Zealand people)
Multiracial people
Mute persons
Shipwrecks
Social isolation
Widowers
Women painters
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