Kerewin
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Oxfam books & music perth in a tower on the new zealand sea lives kerewin holmes, part maori, part european, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her familyas 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 brutalityout 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 maori and european new zealand meet, clash, and sometimes mergeone night her solitude is disrupted by a visitora speechless, mercurial boy named simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possessionthere is writing on the first page of the book see oxfam website for delivery information read morewinner of both a booker prize and pegasus prize for literature, the bone people is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerising emotional complexity
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