Keri Hulme
Keri Hulme
Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui Her novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985; she was the first New Zealander to win the award, and also the first writer to win the prize for a debut novel Hulme's writing explores themes of isolation, postcolonial and multicultural identity, and Maaori, Celtic, and
"They were nothing more than people, by themselves. Even paired, any pairing, they would have been nothing more than people by themselves. But all together, they have become the heart and muscles and mind of something perilous and new, something strange and growing and great. Together, all together, they are the instruments of change. (from the Prologue, p4)"
"Between waking and being awake there is a moment full of doubt and dream, when you struggle to remember what the place and when the time and whether you really are. A peevish moment of wonderment as to where the real world lies. (chapter 1)"
"Hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk. (chapter 2, p71)"
"Why? is the boys motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; its all grist to the mill of why. (chapter 3, p94)"
"Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth.... (chapter 6, p249)"
