David Bergen

• May-2026
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• Sep-2023
• / Literary
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Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seems in early 20th-century Ukraine during the tumult of the Russian Revolution. As anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army all come and go, each claimi...

• Sep-2021
• / Literary
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"Bergen's power as a writer pulls like an undertow... An uncanny, discerning, merciful algebra on what love takes, and where it leaves us." — Paige CooperIn Out of Mind, David Bergen delves into the psyche of Lucille Black, mother, grand...

• Mar-2020
• / General Fiction
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK • A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK FOR 2020 • A CBC BEST FICTION BOOK FOR 2020 • "His third appearance on the Giller shortlist ... affirms Bergen amo...

• Jun-2017
• / General Fiction
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A stirring novel that lays bare the bonds of motherhood, revealing just how far a mother will go to reclaim her stolen child Íso Perdido, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility clinic at Ixchel, named for the Mayan goddess of creation and...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction
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The Age of Hope is the story of Hope Koop, from her teenage years to old age. Hope is a woman trying to raise a family, be a good wife, while also dealing with questions about herself, her role as a woman and her role in the world. Set in Manitoba, t...

• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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An “immaculately written, trenchantly honest, hugely compelling” novel from the Giller Prize�"winning author of Stranger (Globe and Mail). When Morris Schutt, a prominent newspaper columnist, surveys his life over the past year, he sees disast...

• Sep-2008
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Dec-2005
• / General Fiction
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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 encounte...

• May-2002
• / General Fiction
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Several years after the tragic death of his son Stephen, Paul Unger discovers that the boy's ex-girlfriend may have given birth to a child that could be his grandson and hopes that the child could represent a link with his lost son. By the author of ...

• Feb-1997
• / General Fiction
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David Bergen has created a richly layered story of sexual intrigue, vanity and betrayal in the small prairie town of Lesser, a community where everyone's most private moments become public knowledge. We meet Agnes, the local hairdresser who dispenses...

• Jan-1993
• / General Fiction
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"In a faithless world, the transitory and temporal hold the only redemptive power possible, and at their most eloquent, Bergen's stories are a lyrical evocation of this power."--Eric Henderson, The Vancouver Sun...

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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 “chosen̶...