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01809aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 2833F296C93011E88539171297128E48 003 SILO 005 20181006010511 007 ta 008 140827s2014 onc e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1443446467 020 $a 9781443446464 035 $a (OCoLC)890680218 040 $a CNEDM $b eng $e rda $c CNEDM $d OCLCO $d CNFSP $d OCLCO $d LTSCA $d YDXCP $d LGG $d OCLCF $d CN5O3 $d CNRCS $d UIB $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9199.3.K4422 $b B33 2014 055 8 $a PS8571.I5298 $b B33 2014 $2 fcps 082 04 $a [Fic] 100 1 $a King, Thomas, $d 1943- $e author. 245 14 $a The back of the turtle : $b a novel / $c Thomas King. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Toronto, Ontario : $b HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, $c [2014] 300 $a 518 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a 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 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? 586 $a Finalist for The Governor General's Literary Awards 2014 (Canada) 650 0 $a Scientists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Environmental disasters $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Fantasy fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006091454.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2833F296C93011E88539171297128E48 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search