The Time In Between: A Novel - Hardcover

Bergen, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400062403 ISBN 13: 9781400062409

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Three decades after serving during the Vietnam War, Vietnam veteran Charles Boatman disappears during a return to the country, followed by his daughter, Ada, for whom the trip brings increasingly complex revelations and awareness about her life, her father, and her relationship with him. 20,000 first printing.

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About the Author

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 was a finalist for the Manitoba Book of the Year Award.

David Bergen lives in Winnipeg.

From the Back Cover

In search of love and absolution, Charles Boatman leaves for Vietnam, the country where he had fought 29 years earlier as a young, reluctant soldier. When he disappears, his daughter, Ada, and her brother, Jon, travel to the streets of Da Nang and beyond.

Their quest takes them into the heart of a country at once incomprehensible, impassive, and beautiful. While Jon slips into the urban nightlife to avoid what he most fears, Ada finds herself growing closer to her missing father — and strong enough to forgive him and bear the heartbreaking truth of his long-kept secret. The dual narration by Michael Hogan and Tricia Collins gives breathtaking immediacy to this affecting novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400062403
• ISBN 13: 9781400062409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 237