The Back of the Turtle - Thomas King
Category: Novel
Narrator: Doug Philip
Tags: Novel, Contemporary, Literature, Adults
10h40m, Winner of the 2014 Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction!, This is Thomas Kings first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and best-selling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running Water is widely considered a contemporary Canadian classic., In The Back of the Turtle, Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriels sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriels 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 soo
