The Bone People

Summary

On the wild West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, a reclusive part-Maori artist becomes drawn into the lives of a mute boy washed up from the sea and the troubled man who has taken him in. Hulme braids Maori language and myth with experimental typography, dream sequences and bursts of poetry to create a form unlike any other novel of its decade. Difficult and sometimes harrowing, it remains a landmark of indigenous-led storytelling.