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David Bergen


David Bergen is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: A Year of Lesser, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award; See the Child; The Case of Lena S., winner of the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction; and, most recently, The Time in Between, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He is also the author of a collection of short fiction, Sitting Opposite My Brother, which...

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The Retreat
Written by David Bergen

Trade Paperback | 328 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-1254-9 (0-7710-1254-3)

June 2, 2009 | $21.00



Bestselling novelist David Bergen follows his Scotiabank Giller Prize—winning The Time in Between with a haunting novel about the clash of generations — and cultures.

In 1973, outside of Kenora, Ontario, Raymond Seymour, an eighteen-year-old Ojibway boy, is taken by a local policeman to a remote island and left for dead.

A...

Also available as a hardcover.

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The Retreat
Written by David Bergen

Hardcover | 328 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-1253-2 (0-7710-1253-5)

September 9, 2008 | $32.99



Bestselling novelist David Bergen follows his Scotiabank Giller Prize—winning The Time in Between with a haunting novel about the clash of generations — and cultures.

In 1973, outside of Kenora, Ontario, Raymond Seymour, an eighteen-year-old Ojibway boy, is taken by a local policeman to a remote island and left for dead.

A...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Time in Between
Written by David Bergen

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-1139-9 (0-7710-1139-3)

May 30, 2006 | $21.00



In search of love, absolution, or forgiveness, Charles Boatman leaves the Fraser Valley of British Columbia and returns mysteriously to Vietnam, the country where he fought twenty-nine years earlier as a young, reluctant soldier. But his new encounters seem irreconcilable with his memories.

When he disappears, his daughter Ada, and her brother...


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The Case of Lena S.
Written by David Bergen

Trade Paperback | 296 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-1187-0 (0-7710-1187-3)

September 2, 2003 | $21.00



The Case of Lena S. follows the life, loves, and coming-of-age of sixteen-year-old Mason Crowe during a year in which he will learn what it truly means to be in the world. At the centre of the novel is Lena, a troubled girl who has “chosen” Mason and will teach him...