- Man Booker Prize Winner, Widowers, Maori (New Zealand people), Racially mixed people
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.
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- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Keri Hulme
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English, French, German
- ISBN
- 9783596101733
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“"...like our bullock, Jack. Bugger'll be on the old age pension before he's killed."”
Booker Award winning author from New Zealand. *Photo Attribution:* Philip Tremewan, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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