From Publishers Weekly
Winner of the 1985 Booker Prize, this novel by a New Zealander of Maori, Scottish and English ancestry focuses on three peopleone Maori, one European and one of mixed bloodwho are locked together in animosity and love. Although Hulme sometimes is sidetracked into self-indulgent verbiage, "she has abundant, enticing stories to tell of culturally split lives," PW found.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
This is quite a first novel. The ending is revealed at its mysterious beginning; exotic line breaks and poetic punctuation put off at first but gradually become the best way to tell the tale; the Maori vocabulary is interwoven with contemporary British, Australian, and American idioms; and the New Zealand sea- and landscape vibrate under fresh perception. Hulme shifts narrative points of view to build a gripping account of violence, love, death, magic, and redemption. A silverhaired, mute, abused orphan, a laborer heavy with sustained loss, and a brilliant intro spective recluse discover, after enormous struggle through injury and illness, what it means to lose and then regain a family. No wonder The Bone People won the Pegasus Prize. Highly recommended. Rhoda Yerburgh, Adult Degree Program, Vermont Coll., Montpelier
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

RELEASE NOTES:

Will bring the book to tonights BC-meeting.

Caught in the November Turku BC-meetup. Thank you for bringing this one, Intrycksflikka.

RELEASE NOTES:

The checkroom in front of Auditorium Alpha.

Alas, checked out the Wikipedia entry to see what this book's about, and then went and spoiled myself about the plot. Heh. I'll be releasing it back to the wild for someone who can enjoy it.

CAUGHT IN TURKU VARSINAIS-SUOMI FINLAND

Found from the Aurora at the university of Joensuu, now letting it go again.

CAUGHT IN JOENSUU POHJOIS-KARJALA FINLAND