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The back of the turtle : a novel / Thomas King.

By: Publication details: Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., c2014.Edition: 1st edDescription: 518 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781443431620
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
Summary: 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 local wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist, 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. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky?
List(s) this item appears in: Grey County Reads
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Fiction Hanover Public Library Shelves FIC KING (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906000965229

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 local wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist, 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. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky?

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