Keri Hulme: The Bone People: Booker winner, 1st edition

The Bone People is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Maori factory worker with a nasty temper.

The narrative unravels to reveal the truths that lie behind these three characters, and in so doing displays itself as a huge, ambitious work that tackles the clash between Maori and European characters in beautiful prose of a heartrending poignancy.

"Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1985" printed on dust jacket. The book went on to win the Prize.

ISBN: 0340370246

450 page, hard cover book with dust jacket (unclipped). 1st UK edition, Spiral/Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1985. Gift message written inside, light edge-wear to dust jacket; otherwise in very good, unmarked condition.

Weight when packed: 700 grams

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