The Time in Between by David Bergen

In search of love, absolution, or forgiveness, Charles Boatman leaves the Fraser Valley of British Columbia and returns mysteriously to Vietnam, the country where he fought twenty-nine years earlier as a young, reluctant soldier. But his new encounters seem irreconcilable with his memories.

Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa (short listed for the Giller Prize)

At the heart of this collection of intimately linked stories is the relationship between a father and his son. A young fisherman washes uip dead on the shores of Newfoundland. It is Manuel Rebelo who has tried to escape the suffocating smallness of his Portugese village and the crushing weight of his mother's expecatations to build a future for himself in a terra nova.
 

The Story of a Widow by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

This is a beautifully observant novel, one that pays careful attention to the delicate movements of the heart in romantic and family life. But it is equally concerned with the mores of a society in which traditional roles both support and constrain men, and particularly, women. Gently humourous and profoundly perceptive, this novel is the moving tale of a woman's discovery of her voice, and herself.
 

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