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The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
This is one of those books I've read over and over, although less so in later years. I keep coming back to it for its lyricism and poetic quality, the portrayal of three very flawed people with complicated relationships and difficult lives, the Maori culture, and the fact that it tackles a horrible subject without demonising the perpetrator. The detective-style clues to Simon's origins also kept me guessing. It irritates me sometimes (the self-insertion of the author, the challenging style which in my less generous moments I think is self-indulgent) but I always come back - which I guess makes the book a little like Kerewin, challenging and frustrating and rewarding in equal quantities! I first read it in university and the book polarised the class tremendously.