The Bone People /
Keri Hulme.
- London : Picador, 2001.
- ix, 546 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published: Wellington : Spiral, 1984. Novel by a New Zealand author.
A 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.