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The Bone People

(1983)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1985 Booker Prize
1985 Pegasus Prize for Literature

A story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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