The Bone People - Rilegato

Hulme, Keri

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ISBN 10: 0807112844 ISBN 13: 9780807112847

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1985

Riassunto

Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter and a loner, convinced that "to care for anything is to invite disaster." Her isolation is disrupted one day when a six-year-old mute boy, Simon, breaks into her house. The sole survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, Simon has been adopted by a widower Maori factory worker, Joe Gillayley, who is both tender and horribly brutal toward the boy. Through shifting points of view, the novel reveals each character's thoughts and feelings as they struggle with the desire to connect and the fear of attachment.

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Book by Hulme Keri

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• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0807112844
• ISBN 13: 9780807112847
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 450