01438cam a2200301 a 4500003000900000003000900009005001700018008004100035020001800076020001500094040002700109100001700136245002200153264003000175300002900205520057000234650004300804650003800847650003600885650003100921650002900952650002700981651002601008650002501034650002301059655002701082655002701109PH-MaWHOPH-MaWHO20241108112737.0110218r20101983nyu           000 1 eng    a9780330485418  a0330485415  aDLCcWPRO LibrarydDLC1 aHulme, Keri.14aThe bone people /  aLondon :bPicador,c2001.  a[x], 546 pages ;c20 cm.  aIn a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor-a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. 0aMāori (New Zealand people)vFiction. 0aCommitment (Psychology)vFiction. 0aRacially mixed peoplevFiction. 0aSocial isolationvFiction. 0aWomen paintersvFiction. 0aMute personsvFiction. 0aNew ZealandvFiction. 0aShipwrecksvFiction. 0aWidowersvFiction. 0aPsychological fiction. 7aRomance fiction.2lcsh