She wanted every reader’s experience to affect what they trawled, beginning with her mother, Mary Miller, also an expert fisher, and Keri’s first reader and only editor.ĭescribed by Keri as a “new kind of novel, blending reality with dreams, melding Māori and Pākehā (New Zealanders of European descent), weaving strange and hurtful pasts into strangely bright futures”, the bone people is about three damaged individuals.
These contrasting responses reflect reactions from publishers, critics and readers ever since Keri, an expert fisher, first presented the manuscript deliberately woven as a “word-net”, with “holes” in the narrative. Yet she was acclaimed in her home country, where the prime minister welcomed her with a parliamentary reception. “Certainly the strangest novel ever to win the Booker,” according to the Guardian. “The guests … on the whole, seemed baffled by the choice of winner,” noted the Financial Times. First Edition Thus, First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence.Others shared Keri’s surprise. 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. In 'Bone People' she integrates both Maori myth and New Zealand contemporary reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Hulme's writing explores themes of isolation, postcolonial and multicultural identity, and Maori, Celtic, and Norse mythology. This novel, The Bone People, won the Booker Prize in 1985 she was the first New Zealander to win the award, and also the first writer to win the prize for their debut novel.
She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui. Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme (1947 2021) was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer. Includes the author's Preface to the First Edition and a Glossary of Maori words. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: just a touch of wear to the extremities mild rubbing to the wrapper covers a faint crease near the lower front corner tip and some stress creases to the backstrip the expected tanning to the text pages due to aging the binding is square and secure the text is clean. First Edition Thus, First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence.
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