The bone people
Book - 1986
This unusual novel, set in New Zealand, concentrates on three people: Kerewin Holmes, a part-Maori painter who has chosen to isolate herself in a tower she built from lottery winnings; Simon, a troubled and mysterious little boy; and Joe Gillayley, the Maori factory worker who is Simon's foster father. Elements of Maori myth and culture are woven into the novel's exploration of the passions and needs that bind these three people together, for good or ill. It's not easy reading, but the story is compelling despite its stylistic eccentricities and great length. The novel is the winner of the Pegasus Prize.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Novels
Romance fiction
Fiction
Psychological fiction - Published
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New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Penguin Books
1986.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 450 pages ; 20 cm
- Awards
- Man Booker Prize, 1985.
- ISBN
- 9780140089226
- Prologue
- The End At The Beginning
- I. Season Of The Day Moon
- 1. Portrait Of A Sandal
- 2. Feelers
- 3. Leaps In The Dark
- II. The Sea Round
- 4. A Place To Sleep By Day
- 5. Spring Tide, Neap Tide, Ebb Tide, Flood
- 6. Ka Tata Te Po
- III. The Lightning Struck Tower
- 7. Mirrortalk
- 8. Nightfall
- 9. Candles In The Wind
- IV. Feldapart Sinews, Breaken Bones
- 10. The Kaumatua And The Broken Man
- 11. The Boy By His Own
- 12. The Woman At The Wellspring Of Death
- Epilogue
- Moonwater Picking
- Translation of Maori Words and Phrases