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Hosseini, Khaled Kite Runner Riverhead Books 2005 paperback. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1074021. ISBN #1594480001 / 9781594480003. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Housden, Roger Chasing Rumi : A Fable About Finding the Heart's True Desire HarperSanFrancisco 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Like New. Book #or1147923. ISBN #0060084456 / 9780060084455. (keywords: FICTION RELIGIOUS Rumi Jalal al Dan Rama Maulana) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Houston, Margaret Bell Gypsy Weather hardcover. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1007040. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Houston, Pam Cowboys Are My Weakness Washington Square Press 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106792. ISBN #0671793888 / 9780671793883. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Houston, Pam Cowboys Are My Weakness Washington Square Press 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106792. ISBN #0671793888 / 9780671793883. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey. But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the West," says the narrator in the title story of Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection. In these strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuances of modern romance. They go where their cowboys go, they meet cowboys who don't look the part -- and they have staunch friends who give them advice when the going gets rough. Cowboys Are My Weakness is a refreshing and realistic look at men and women -- together and apart.
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Howe, Katherine The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Voice 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043846. ISBN #1401340903 / 9781401340902. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Howe, Katherine The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Voice 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043846. ISBN #1401340903 / 9781401340902. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "A fresh present-day story infused with an original take on popular history. Forget broomsticks and pointy hats; here are witches that could well be walking among us today. This debut novel flows with poetic charm and eloquence that achieves high literary merit while concocting a gripping supernatural puzzler. Katherine Howe's talent is spellbinding." --Matthew Pearl, author of The Poe Shadow and The Dante Club A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history-the Salem witch trials. Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest--to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge. As the pieces of Deliverance's harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem's dark past then she could have ever imagined. Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation.
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Howells, William Dean William Dean Howells : Novels 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian Summer, The Rise of Silas Lapham (Library of America) Library of America 1982 hardcover. in slipcase. two nicks to top of spine and two small holes in cloth cover of spine. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1169572. ISBN #0940450046 / 9780940450042. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Howland, Leila Nantucket Summer (A Collection) Hyperion 2014 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150353. ISBN #1368002129 / 9781368002127. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hua, Chuang Crossings 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137946. ISBN #0930350987 / 9780930350987. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hua, Chuang Crossings 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137946. ISBN #0930350987 / 9780930350987. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A powerful story of one woman's displacement between cultures and traditions a landmark in Asian-American literature. When it was first published in America in 1968, Chuang Hua's evocative novel Crossings was completely unheralded and quickly went out of print. Years later it would be widely recognized as the first modernist novel to address the Asian-American experience, its deeply imagistic prose marked by spatial and temporal leaps, an unconventional syntax, and unanticipated shifts in plot as haunting as the writing of Jane Bowles. At the center of Crossings is Fourth Jane, the fourth of seven children whose recollections of an oppressive yet loving father, Dyadya, are collaged with her constant migrations between four continents. Suffering from a domestic torpor occasionally enlivened by ritualistic preparations of food for her foreign lover, Jane's displacement only heightens the remembrance of what she has fled: a breech of the familial code; a failed romance; and further in the past, the desolation of war as "bloated corpses flowed in the current of the yellow river." Spare, lyrical, Taoist in form and elusiveness, visually cinematic, tender and sensual, Chuang Hua's powerful narrative endures as one of the most moving and original works of literature in the history of American letters.
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Huang, Yang Living Treasures 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1019910. ISBN #0989596052 / 9780989596053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huang, Yang Living Treasures 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1019910. ISBN #0989596052 / 9780989596053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Shortlisted for The Rubery Book Award INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist Pen Bellwether Prize Finalist A woman can have a career and family, but which comes first? A starving panda eats a hen in order to nurse her cub in the dead of winter--there begins the perilous adventure of Gu Bao, a girl who grows up under the Chinese government's one-child policy. Bao falls in love with a handsome soldier during the tumultuous Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. The demonstrations transfix her fellow students and kill one of her friends. Bao finds herself pregnant and faces the end of her academic career. Her grieving parents arrange for a secret abortion and ship her off to her grandparents' house in the remote countryside where she was raised. Bao searches for her inner strength while exploring the evocative Sichuan mountain landscape. She befriends a panda mother caught in a poacher's snare, and an expectant young mother hiding from villainous one-child policy enforcers bent on giving compulsory abortions. All struggle against society to preserve the treasure of their little ones. Can Bao save a rural family from destruction, and help a giant panda along the way? She devises a daring plan that changes the lives of everyone around her. A deeply moving story of family, passion, and courage, Living Treasures is both a gripping page-turner and an incisive social critique, portraying a young woman's quest for romance and justice in a rigid society. Bao, a law student, aspires to have both a career and family, but which comes first? A baby rarely arrives at a convenient time. The decision about the woman's body is not an easy choice but rather a compromise that comes with a dear price. Bao's struggle encapsulates many women's journeys through life, as they experience the triumphs, suffer the heartbreaks, and learn to live with the consequences.
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Hudson, W. H. Green Mansions hardcover. some wear to slipcase. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013922. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huggam Isabel Elizabeth Stories paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035323. ISBN #0140101993 / 9780140101997. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huggan, Isabel Elizabeth Stories paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1089352. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hughes, Anita Christmas in London: A Novel St. Martin's 2017 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153090. ISBN #1250145791 / 9781250145796. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Huchback of Notre-Dame Barnes & Noble Classics 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164098. ISBN #0760701679 / 9780760701676. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Penguin Books 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169447. ISBN #0143123599 / 9780143123590. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Penguin Books 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169447. ISBN #0143123599 / 9780143123590. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Now a major motion picure, adapted from the acclaimed Broadway musical, starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Sacha Baron Cohen Victor Hugo s tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society , Les Mis rables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830. This striking edition features the widely celebrated and eminently readable translation by Norman Denny.
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162705. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162705. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Les Miserables , by Victor Hugo , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Mis rables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo s stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed Les Mis rables , an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I. This newly abridged edition of Les Mis rables tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert. As Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust into the teeming underworld of Paris with all its poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as cruel tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of hope, rebellion sweeps over the land like wildfire, igniting a vast struggle for the democratic ideal in France. A monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer, the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood, Les Mis rables is a rich, emotional novel that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in nineteenth-century France. Laurence M. Porter has published twelve books, including Victor Hugo 1999 , and a hundred articles and chapters. He was a National Endowment for the Humanties Senior Fellow in 1998. He teaches French at Michigan State University, where he won the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1995.
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153534. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153534. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Les Miserables , by Victor Hugo , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Mis rables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo s stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed Les Mis rables , an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I. This newly abridged edition of Les Mis rables tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert. As Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust into the teeming underworld of Paris with all its poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as cruel tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of hope, rebellion sweeps over the land like wildfire, igniting a vast struggle for the democratic ideal in France. A monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer, the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood, Les Mis rables is a rich, emotional novel that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in nineteenth-century France. Laurence M. Porter has published twelve books, including Victor Hugo 1999 , and a hundred articles and chapters. He was a National Endowment for the Humanties Senior Fellow in 1998. He teaches French at Michigan State University, where he won the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1995.
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150937. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150937. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Les Miserables , by Victor Hugo , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Mis rables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo s stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed Les Mis rables , an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I. This newly abridged edition of Les Mis rables tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert. As Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust into the teeming underworld of Paris with all its poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as cruel tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of hope, rebellion sweeps over the land like wildfire, igniting a vast struggle for the democratic ideal in France. A monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer, the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood, Les Mis rables is a rich, emotional novel that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in nineteenth-century France. Laurence M. Porter has published twelve books, including Victor Hugo 1999 , and a hundred articles and chapters. He was a National Endowment for the Humanties Senior Fellow in 1998. He teaches French at Michigan State University, where he won the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1995.
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Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame Barnes & Noble Classics 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or909390v1. ISBN #1593081405 / 9781593081409. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame Barnes & Noble Classics 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or909390v1. ISBN #1593081405 / 9781593081409. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Hunchback of Notre Dame , by Victor Hugo , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. One of the first great novels of the Romantic era, Victor Hugo s The Hunchback of Notre Dame has thrilled generations of readers with its powerfully melodramatic story of Quasimodo, the deformed hunchback who lives in the bell tower of medieval Paris s most famous cathedral. Feared and hated by all, Quasimodo is looked after by Dom Claude Frollo, a stern, cold priest who ignores the poor hunchback in the face of his frequent public torture. But someone steps forward to help the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, whose single act of kindness fills Quasimodo with love. Can the hunchback save the lovely gypsy from Frollo s evil plan, or will they all perish in the shadows of Notre Dame? An epic tale of beauty and sadness, The Hunchback of Notre Dame portrays the sufferings of humanity with compassion and power. Isabel Roche teaches French language and literature at Bennington College. She specializes in the nineteenth-century French novel.
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Hui, Wei Shanghai Baby Washington Square Press 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003578. ISBN #0743421574 / 9780743421577. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hui, Wei Shanghai Baby Washington Square Press 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003578. ISBN #0743421574 / 9780743421577. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The gap that divides those of us born in the 1970s and the older generation has never been so wide. Dark and edgy, deliciously naughty, an intoxicating cocktail of sex and the search for love, Shanghai Baby has already risen to cult status in mainland China. The risque contents of the breakthrough novel by hip new author Wei Hui have so alarmed Beijing authorities that thousands of copies have been confiscated and burned. As explicit as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, as shocking as Trainspotting, this story of a beautiful writer and her erotically charged affairs jumps, howls, and hits the ground running as it depicts the new generation rising in the East. Set in the centuries-old port city of Shanghai, the novel follows the days, and nights, of the irrepressibly carnal Coco, who waits tables in a caf when she meets her first lover, a sensitive Chinese artist. Defying her parents, Coco moves in with her boyfriend and enters a frenzied, orgasmic world of drugs and hedonism. But, helpless to stop her gentle lover's descent into addiction, Coco becomes attracted to a boisterous Westerner, a rich German businessman with a penchant for S M and seduction. Now, with an entourage of friends ranging from a streetwise madame to a rebellious filmmaker, Coco's forays into in the territory of love and lust cross the borders between two cultures -- awakening her guilt and fears of discovery, yet stimulating her emerging sexual self. Searing a blistering image into the reader's imagination, Shanghai Baby provides an alternative travelogue into the back streets of a city and the hard-core escapades of today's liberated youth. Wei Hui's provocative portrayal of men, women, and cultural transition is an astonishing and brave exposure of the unacknowledged new China, breaking through official rhetoric to show the inroads of the West and a people determined to burst free.
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Hulme, Keri Bone People Penguin Books 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162944. ISBN #0140089225 / 9780140089226. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hulme, Keri Bone People Penguin Books 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162944. ISBN #0140089225 / 9780140089226. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, 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. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge. Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.
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