The back of the turtle: a novel: Novel

✍ Scribed by Thomas King

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers;HarperCollins Canada; HarperCollins e-books
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 281 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York;NY
• ISBN: 1443431621

✦ Synopsis

This is Thomas King’s first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestsellingThe Inconvenient Indianand his belovedGreen Grass, Running WaterandTruth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities.Green Grass, Running Wateris widely considered a contemporary Canadian classic.

InThe Back of the Turtle, Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel’s sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel’s family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for DowSanto, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky?

Filled with brilliant characters, trademark wit, wordplay and a thorough knowledge of native myth and story-telling, this novel is a masterpiece by one of our most important writers.

✦ Subjects

Novels