The Bone People

By Keri Hulme

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

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.