The Time in Between

9780864924711

David Bergen (Author) Tricia Collins (Narrator) Michael Hogan (Narrator) $29.95 Audio CD Published July 15, 2007 - In Stock BTC Audiobooks

In this beautiful and timely adaptation of David Bergen's 2005 Giller Prize-winning novel, Charles Boatman leaves the Fraser Valley and returns mysteriously to Vietnam, where he fought twenty-nine years earlier as a young, reluctant soldier. What he finds seems irreconcilable with his memories and he disappears. When his daughter, Ada, and her brother, Jon, travel to the streets of Da Nang and beyond to search for him, their quest takes them into the heart of a country at once incomprehensible, impassive, and beautiful. There, they become entangled in the lives of those they encounter until gradually they learn the truth of their father's disappearance. Moving between father and daughter, the present and the past, The Time in Between is an unforgettable story about one family, two cultures, and a profound emotional journey.

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Accolades

"Bergen's best writing evokes the absence of what has been lost and, even more terribly, what is not there to be found." - Globe and Mail

"With his thoughtful dialogue, Bergen makes the characters' heartache seep off the page." - Time

"David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that’s both erotic and hypnotic. Set mostly in modern-day Viet Nam, The Time In-Between is a deeply moving meditation on love and loss, truth and its elusiveness, and a compelling portrait of a haunted man, Charles Boatman, and his daughter who seeks to solve the mystery of his disappearance." - Miriam Toews, author of A Complicated Kindness

*These texts refer to the print edition.