Here the Dark, David Bergen
Here the Dark, David Bergen
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Here the Dark

Author: David Bergen

Narrator: Michael Braun

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/11/2020


Synopsis

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.

About David Bergen

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David

It's another collection of stories shortlisted for the Giller Prize that seems an unlikely choice given the opening stories... Distraught over the growing separation with his travelling girlfriend, guy organizes a Day Camp for tweens and falls for one of them. Followed by day drinking teacher cuckold......more

Goodreads review by Darryl

If reading about toxic masculinity and/or male antiheroes isn't your thing, stay away from this short story collection. Lol. I was really into this. Damn, Bergen is a great prose writer, no denying that. He knows how to create a mood. All of these men are dangerous, either to others or to themselves.......more

I really liked some of these short stories and the novella would be great fleshed out as a novel. Stories centred around churches that behave more like cults are always interesting.......more

I didn't connect with anything, not the characters, the writing or the imagery. It seemed like each short story had one flat female character who's only quality was based souly on physical appearance and the male characters got a trophy for loving them anyways... Overall, all the short stories were......more