Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, "The Bone People" is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake ...
The powers of dance, myth, and ritual link otherwise disparate cultures in this photographic journey through Southern Asia and the South Pacific. Victoria Ginn's gloriously exotic photographs are potent, elemental studies of this mystical, mythic realm.
In her second collection of verse, Booker Prize-winner Keri Hulme combines lyrical, romantic poetry with powerful images of the landscape and her Maori background.
A descriptive autobiography by Keri Hulme, winner of the Booker prize in 1985, of her "homeplaces". For Hulme, these are three places in her native New Zealand: Okarito, a former goldrush settlement on the West Coast; Moeraki, site of ancient habitations; and Stewart Island on the southernmost tip. Keri Hulme is also the author of "Bone People", ...
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