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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 naivete 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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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. -- Quill & Quire magazine 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

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David Bergren is the author of four highly acclaimed novels. A Year of Lesser was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. The Case of Lena S. won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and was 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. The Time in Between won 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. Michael Braun is an actor and voice artist, born and raised in New York City. Since graduating from the Yale School of Drama, he has performed in many productions in New York and across the country, including War Horse on Broadway, and The Winter's Tale at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. His television and film credits include The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, Law & Order, and Dare. He is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award and the Herschell Williams Prize for Acting.

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