The bone people / Keri Hulme
Publication details: London : Picador, 2001Description: ix, 546 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 0330485415
- 823 HUL
"Winner of the Booker Prize" - Cover
Originally published: Wellington : Spiral, 1984
Prologue. The end at the beginning. - I. Season of the day moon. 1. Portrait of a sandal. - 2. Feelers. - 3. Leaps in the dark. II. The sea round. - 4. A place to sleep by day. - 5. Spring tide, neap tide, ebb tide, flood. - 6. Ka tata te po. - III. The lightning struck tower. - 7. Mirrortalk. - 8. Nightfall. - 9. Candles in the wind. - IV. Feldapart sinews, breaken bones. - 10. The Kaumatua and the broken man. - 11. The boy by his own. - 12. The woman at the wellsping of death. - Epilogue. Moonwater picking. - Translation of Maori words and phrases.