Author

Publication

1985 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Language

English

Word Count

112,500 words, Guess

Page Count

450 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC823
  • LCCPR9639.3.H75 B6 1985
  • LCCPR9639.3.H75B6 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.

Description

Kerewin, a part-Maori painter living in self-exile, is drawn out of her isolation by a mute boy who is cast up on a beach, the only survivor of a shipwreck.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

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