Spanning the decade from the mid-seventies, this selection explores the diverse directions New Zealand short fiction has taken since it left the realism of the farm in search of the surrealism of the modern city. This volume also reflects the emergence of women writers in recent years.

New Zealand Short Stories Fourth Series

Literature & Fiction

Janet-Frame

C.K. Stead

Fiona Kidman

KERI HULME

Maurice Duggan

Patricia Gracae

Witi Ihimaera, et. al.

Maurice, Gee

Short Stories & Anthologies

Oxford University Press

The Bone People

Contemporary

Picador

GIFT QUALITY! 1986 Picador mass market paperback, 27th printing. Keri Hulme (Bait). 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.

Pan Books

Powerful and visionary, Keri Hulme has written the great New Zealand novel of our times. 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 comes his foster-father Joe, a Maori factory worker with a nasty temper. The narrative unravels to reveal the truths that lie behind these three characters, and in so doing displays itself as a huge, ambitious work that tackles the clash between Maori and European characters in beautiful prose of a heartrending poignancy. 'In this novel, New Zealand's people, its heritage and landscape are conjured up with uncanny poetry and perceptiveness' Sunday Times

Romance

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", which won the Booker Prize in 1985, and "The Windeater".

Homeplaces: Three coasts of the south island of New Zealand

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Stonefish Paperback by KERI HULME (Author)

Stonefish

Huia Publishers

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