Publisher details

Author: Keri Hulme
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genre: Fiction
Released: 01 February, 1984

The Bone People

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Synopsis

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.#57 in ABC My Favourite Book

About the author

Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme was born in March 1947 in Christchurch, New Zealand. She was a writer in residence at Otago University in New Zealand in 1978, and in 1985 at the University of Canterbury. Her first novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985. Her other books include The Windeater / Te Kaihu (1982), a collection of short stories, and Homeplaces (1989), her homage to three coasts of the South Island. She lives in New Zealand.