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PRAISE FOR THE BONE PEOPLE
'Set on the harsh South Island beaches of New Zealand, bound in Maori myth and entwined with
Christian symbols, Miss Hulme's provocative novel summons power with words, as a conjurer's
spell. She casts her magic on three fiercely unique characters, but reminds us that we, like them,
are 'nothing more than people', and that, in a sense, we are all cannibals, compelled to consume the
gift of love with demands for perfection.' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'This first novel from a New Zealand writer radiates vitality. Seizing on material that might seem
outlandish, she transforms it into a fable that's as persuasive as it's haunting. In this novel, New
Zealand's people, its heritage and landscape are conjured up with uncanny poetry and
perceptiveness.' THE SUNDAY TIMES
'I am at one with this year's Booker judges in thinking Keri Hulme's The Bone People the
outstanding novel. The central portrait, an autistic child who would try the patience of a saint. The
man and woman who have to cope with him are not saints: they are New Zealanders who love him,
their country, and their self-respect, all passionately. These elements combine and ignite in such a
way as to make you feel you are discovering what an aspect of real life is like.' Anthony CURTIS
FINANCIAL TIMES
'Clearly it was written with passion and it has inspired passions... Rich, varied and flexible, the
story becomes utterly compelling.' MARTIN GOFF/NEW SOCIETY
'Keri Hulme is a poet. The power and feeling for nature and the more mystical sides of a
dwindling people, the Maoris, will make it a gem providing a whole new range of experience.'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
'It is beautiful and terrible. It is tender and cruel. It is dream and reality. It is poetry and crudity. It
is infinitely simple and infinitely complex.' NEW ZEALAND HERALD
'It has a tumbling vehemence and a passionate sincerity.' ALLAN MASSIE/THE SCOTSMAN
Keri Hulme
THE BONE PEOPLE
PICADOR
Pan Books
About the Author
Keri Hulme has Kai Tahu, Orkney Island and English ancestry and lives at Okarito on the West
Coast of New Zealand. She is a writer and painter and has published short stories in a wide
variety of magazines and anthologies, and also a book of poetry. The Bone People is her first
novel.
Acknowledgments
I thank these people and groups of people, without whom The Bone People would never have been
completed, never been published: my family The New Zealand Literary Fund Advisory
Committees The committee awarding the Robert Burns Term Fellowship (Otago University 1977)
The Maori Trust Fund (for the prize for writing in English 1978) The ICI Company (for the
generous contribution to the 1982 ICI Bursary which enabled the final final rewrites) Arnold Wall
Judith Maloney and Bill Minehan (remember the wake?!) Rowley Habib and particularly, the
Spiral Collectives, for friendship and faith.
Keri Hulme

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