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The Bone People, won the 1985 Man Booker Prize, follows the interwoven lives of a widower, his mute wife, and a boy whom they each take in. Through their struggles with isolation, trauma, and the legacies of colonialism, the novel examines the tensions between Maori spirituality and European life on New Zealandβs Mt. Cook. The storyβs unsettling, intimate portrait of a family is marked by moments of violence, artistic ambition, and the possibility of redemption.
First publish date: 1983
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Keri Hulme
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