The Bone People

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.