{"product_id":"the-bone-people-a-novel-9780140089226","title":"The Bone People A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe powerful, visionary, Booker Award–winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“This book is just amazingly, wondrously great.” —Alice Walker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, 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 indigenous and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge.\u003cp\u003eWinner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, \u003ci\u003eThe Bone People\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...a huge, ambitious work that aspires to portray the clash between Maori and European cultures...\" -- \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An original, overwhelming, near-great work of literature.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"In this novel, New Zealand's people, its heritage and landscape are conjured up with uncanny poetry and perceptiveness.\"-- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524420739415,"sku":"9780140089226","price":15.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140089226.jpg?v=1731856709","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-bone-people-a-novel-9780140089226","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}