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The profound intelligence and political resonance readers have come to expect from Giller Prize-winner David Bergen are on rich display in his electrifying new novel, Stranger, "an engrossing human exploration of displacement and inequality in a world governed by greed" (Toronto Star).Íso Perdido, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility clinic at Ixchel, named for the Mayan goddess of creation and destruction. Íso tends to the rich women who visit the clinic for the supposed conception-enhancing properties of the local lake. She is also the lover of Dr. Mann, the American doctor in residence. When an accident forces the doctor to leave Guatemala abruptly, Íso is abandoned, pregnant. After the birth, tended to by the manager of the clinic, the baby disappears.Determined to reclaim her daughter, Íso follows a trail north, eventually crossing illegally into a United States where the rich live in safe zones, walled away from the indigent masses. Traveling without documentation, and with little money, Íso must penetrate this world, and in this place of menace and shifting boundaries, she must determine who she can trust and how much, aware that she might lose her daughter forever.In David Bergen's Stranger, with its uncanny lake, human monsters, and a stolen child, an ageless story is freshly recast in a modern setting, where themes of dislocation and disruption, exploitation and vulnerability, rich and poor collide. Intense and beautifully rendered, Stranger is a powerful and affecting novel for our times.
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Inventive and electrifying.
Arguably his best novel . . . profound and important . . . absolutely gripping.
Gorgeous lyricism . . .
A spare and haunting page turner by an award-winning Canadian novelist.
The award-winning author [David Bergen's] . . . story about an undocumented immigrant is very timely. Bergen shows us how this affects an individual and all the problems she faces in trying to reclaim her child.
About the Author
David Bergen is the award-winning author of eight previous novels and a collection of short stories. A Year of Lesser was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and The Case of Lena S. was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction. In 2005, Bergen won the Giller Prize for The Time in Between.
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- PublisherOverlook Pr
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1468315102
- ISBN 13 9781468315103
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages253
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