She wanted every reader’s experience to affect what they trawled, beginning with her mother, Mary Miller, also an expert fisher, and Keri’s first reader and only editor.ĭescribed by Keri as a “new kind of novel, blending reality with dreams, melding Māori and Pākehā (New Zealanders of European descent), weaving strange and hurtful pasts into strangely bright futures”, the bone people is about three damaged individuals. These contrasting responses reflect reactions from publishers, critics and readers ever since Keri, an expert fisher, first presented the manuscript deliberately woven as a “word-net”, with “holes” in the narrative. Yet she was acclaimed in her home country, where the prime minister welcomed her with a parliamentary reception.
“Certainly the strangest novel ever to win the Booker,” according to the Guardian. “The guests … on the whole, seemed baffled by the choice of winner,” noted the Financial Times.
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