The Back Of The Turtle - Hardcover

Thomas King

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443431621 ISBN 13: 9781443431620

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

Winner of the 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction!
This is Thomas King’s first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Gr, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water , both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Gr, Running Water is widely considered a contemporary Canadian clic. In The Back of the Turtle , Gabriel to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she 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 Domidion, 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. .

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443431621
• ISBN 13: 9781443431620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528