{"product_id":"lost-possessions","title":"Lost Possessions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey have left me.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe door is locked.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe room is entirely bare.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e. . . \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLost Possessions\u003c\/em\u003e, a novella, was published in 1985, shortly before\u003cem\u003e The Bone People\u003c\/em\u003e won the Booker Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eKeri Hulme (1947–2021) was born in Christchurch, of Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe and Orkney ancestry on her mother’s side, and English on her father’s. She identified Moeraki on the Otago East Coast as her tūrangawaewae-ngākau, and lived for over 30 years in a house she built herself, in Ōkārito on the West Coast.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eKeri Hulme’s novel \u003cem\u003ethe bone people\u003c\/em\u003e, published by the Spiral Collective in 1984, was the most widely read and influential book of its time in Aotearoa New Zealand, and was published around the world in many languages, winning the Booker Prize in 1985. Her other books include poetry, \u003cem\u003eThe Silences Between (Moeraki Conversations)\u003c\/em\u003e (1982), a novella, \u003cem\u003eLost Possessions\u003c\/em\u003e (1985), and two collections of short stories, \u003cem\u003eTe Kaihau | The Windeater\u003c\/em\u003e (1985) and  \u003cem\u003eStonefish\u003c\/em\u003e (2004). She held the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago in 1977 and the Canterbury University Writing Fellowship in 1985, and was awarded the QEII Arts Council Scholarship in Letters in 1990.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40621139787810,"sku":"9781776920198","price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0052\/0785\/1042\/products\/Copy-of-Book-Template-129.jpg?v=1658289647","url":"https:\/\/petronella.pro\/products\/lost-possessions","provider":"Petronella's Gallery and Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}