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Title	:	The Bone People
Author	:	Keri Hulme
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 450 pages
Published	:	October 7th 1986 by Penguin Books (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Fiction. Magical Realism

The Bone People

Keri Hulme

Paperback | Pages: 450 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 19099 Users | 1708 Reviews

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In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor—a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge. Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.

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Original Title:	The Bone People
ISBN:	0140089225 (ISBN13: 9780140089226)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Joe Gillayley, Kerewin Holmes, Simon Holt
Setting:	New Zealand
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (1985), Pegasus Prize for Literature (1985), Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Fiction (NZ Book Awards) (1984)

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What a strange style Hulme has used to present her story. It took me probably 15 or 20 pages to figure out how to read this book. But once it opened for me--wow! By page 34, I love both Kerewin (artist (estranged from her art), exile (from her family), dislikes people, especially children) and Simon (the child, naturally, speechless, which is less expected). By the half-way point Hulme has moved away from the sunny view of "cranky loner woman falls in love with strange child and all is happy."

So, okay, Ms. Hulme, I already felt rather suffocated by your novel throughout the book, but you really tried to strangle me with your final chapters. I was going to rate the novel 3 stars. However, after those last chapters, I will now grant it a mere one star plus another one for the rather picturesque writing throughout the book. Let me explain. I rather liked the sing-song quality of the narrative and in particular the inserted little snippets of poetry, contemplations and lamentations. What

One of my all-time favourites. A quirky book, very New Zealand - they produce some....unusual books and films here. The national psyche here is...bleaker - and darker - than would perhaps appear to the observer. At least, that is true if you look at the creative output with my (jaded?) eye!If you would like to see what I mean, watch 'The Piano', 'Once Were Warriors' and 'Whale Rider' - which last is not so much dark as steeped in 'otherness'. This novel speaks so clearly to me of the New Zealand

This novel is a shining jewel, one with a huge flaw in its centre. It is still, however, an impressive and beautiful work, and a hugely ambitious one: an attempt to create a story that marries the disparate identitiesMaori and Europeanthat make up present day New Zealand. There is a realism-based story of friendship, self-destruction, and child abuse, and there is a symbolism-filled story of healing, catharsis, and the necessary fusing of Maori and European civilisations. Each is well-told but

I can't really say that I liked this book. I read it, and didn't get bored or dislike reading it. I did not however learn much from the book or feel a whole lot after reading it. I liked the earlier parts of the book when Kerewin's narration was more dominant. Toward the end, after Joe beat up Simon I stopped liking the book at all. Joe's encounter with the wise man kind of left me scratching my head, and from then on the book went down hill. Kerewin's redemption in the end bothered me because

4.5 starsThis was twelve years in the writing and was rejected by many publishers. It defies easy description and is very much set in the interface between Maori and western culture. There is complexity in the structure and a dose of magic realism at the end. The character of Kerewin Holmes is a remarkable creation who jumps out of the page. The novel revolves around three characters. Kerewin Holmes is a solitary woman living in a tower, a painter who does not paint and who is estranged from her

This was my second time of reading The Bone People. I remember loving it the first time around, but I also remember thinking that it was flawed in many little ways (the very beginning, the sketchy end, the way the story's strands seem to escape Keri Hulme in the last third) yet whenever I've stumbled upon it on GR I kept being surprised at my 4*rating, since there's many five* reads that I remember much less and that had less of an emotional impact on me. I think this time I've surrendered to my