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...sufferings. Boatman, is at the center of the Winnipeg novelist David Bergen's novel, is an enigmatic figure around whom mystery coalesces after he suddenly disappears while on a return trip to Vietnam decades later. If the "solution" to the mystery is anticlimactic, Bergen's book, which won the 2005 Giller Prize, poses deeper questions about memory, trauma, and cultural dialogue.
The narrative architecture of this book is somewhat formulaic. The narrative strands which, between past and present;, the child trying to gain a reflective sense of her parents' life; and the sense of deliberate, cross-cultural perspective,...
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