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The Bone People

  • Keri Hulme

4.17

6 ratings

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.

Genres

  • Man Booker Prize Winner
  • Widowers
  • Maori (New Zealand people)
  • Racially mixed people
  • Mute persons
  • Commitment (Psychology)
  • award:man_booker_prize=1985
  • Fiction
  • Boys
  • Social isolation
  • Women painters
  • Shipwrecks
  • New Zealand fiction
  • New zealand, fiction
  • Women artists, fiction
  • Widowers, fiction
  • Fiction, psychological
  • Fiction, romance, contemporary
  • Pakiwaitara
  • Tāngata
  • Tikanga tuku iho
  • Noho-ā-iwi
  • Aronganui
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Fiction, romance, general
  • Artists
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About the author

  • Keri Hulme

    9 March 1947 - 27 December 2021

    4.17

    6 ratings · 9 works

Editions

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    21.-28. Tausend

    Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag

    1991-09

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    FISCHER Taschenbuch

    Aug 23, 2012

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    Einmalige Sonderausg., limitierte Sonderausg.

    Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl.

    1993

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    Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt

    December 1, 1990

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Penguin

Feb 06, 1983

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    Penguin Books

    2010

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    MacMillan

    December 1998

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    Penguin Ink

    Penguin

    2010

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    Picador

    November 5, 1993

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    Penguin (Non-Classics)

    1986

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    New Ed edition

    Picador

    November 9, 2001

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    Hodder and Stoughton

    1985

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    Penguin

    1986

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    U.S. ed.

    Louisiana State University Press

    1985

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    Picador

    July 4, 1986

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    Penguin Books

    1986

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    Spiral Pr

    July 1, 1985

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    Updated ed.

    Louisiana State University Press

    2005

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    Flammarion

    January 22, 2001

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    Penguin Books

    2010

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    Tandem Library

    October 1986

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    New Ed edition

    Trafalgar Square

    May 21, 1990