The Bone People

By Keri Hulme

Subjects: Boys, Tikanga tuku iho, New Zealand fiction, Mute persons, Pakiwaitara, Maori (New Zealand people), award:man_booker_prize=1985, Commitment (Psychology), Women painters, New zealand, fiction, Noho-ā-iwi, Man Booker Prize Winner, Tāngata, Women artists, fiction, Widowers, Social isolation, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Shipwrecks, Racially mixed people, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, psychological, Widowers, fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Aronganui

Description: At once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People is a powerful and unsettling tale saturated with violence and Maori spirituality.