Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys. A Globe and Mail top 100 book of 2012 Saul Indian Horse is dying. Winner of the Canada Reads People's Choice award and the First Nations Communities Reads program and short-listed for the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award.
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