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From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost off the islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where a teenage boy’s infatuation reveals his naiveté and an aging rancher finds himself smitten, the short stories in Here the Dark explore the spaces between doubt and belief, evil and good, obscurity and light. Following men and boys bewildered by their circumstances and swayed by desire, surprised by love and by their capacity for both tenderness and violence, and featuring a novella about a young woman who rejects the laws of her cloistered Mennonite community, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winner David Bergen’s latest deftly renders complex moral ambiguities and asks what it means to be lost—and how we might be found.
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“Gripping…Here the Dark highlight[s] the nuance in every decision; more often than not, no ‘right’ choice is offered. It’s love?not faith?that saves.”
— Winnipeg Free Press
“Bergen’s style is taut, devoid of overblown ‘writerly’ prose…He brings to mind Ernest Hemingway… A masterclass in fine writing.”
— Toronto Star“Gripping…Here the Dark highlight[s] the nuance in every decision; more often than not, no ‘right’ choice is offered. It’s love―not faith―that saves.”
— Winnipeg Free Press“Bergen’s prose is always tight and clear, but in his novella it takes on an eerie quality; the story is both immediate and dreamlike.”
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David Bergen is the bestselling author of twelve novels and two collections of short fiction. Among his most acclaimed works are The Time in Between, a national bestseller; The Age of Hope, finalist for Canada Reads; and Out of Mind, a follow-up to The Matter with Morris. He has won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year five times, and his writing has also been shortlisted for Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and a Pushcart Prize. In 2018 Bergen was presented with the Writer’s Trust Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. He lives in Winnipeg.
Michael Braun is an experienced and versatile narrator with over one hundred credits on Audible (both under his name as well as various pseudonyms) in genres ranging from thrillers to young adult, science fiction to romance.