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The bone people / Keri Hulme.

by Hulme, Keri.

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Hodder and Stoughton, 1985, c1983.

Maori (New Zealand people) -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

New Zealand -- Fiction.

9780140089226 (Trade paperback)

9780143116455 (2010 Penguin trade pbk.)

9780330485418 (2001 Picador trade pbk.)

0330293877 (Pan pbk.)

0330296108 (Picador pbk.)

450 p. ; 22 cm.

Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter and a loner, convinced that "to care for anything is to invite disaster." Her isolation is disrupted one day when a six-year-old mute boy, Simon, breaks into her house. The sole survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, Simon has been adopted by a widower Maori factory worker, Joe Gillayley, who is both tender and horribly brutal toward the boy. Through shifting points of view, the novel reveals each character's thoughts and feelings as they struggle with the desire to connect and the fear of attachment.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize, 1985.

Psychological fiction.

Literary fiction.

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