David Bergen Hybird Book Launch (Away from the Dead)

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1JG8ISBuBs

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Join us as we celebrate the launch of David Bergen’s new novel Away from the Dead (Goose Lane Editions). This event features a reading and a conversation hosted by Maurice Mierau. Presented as part of THIN AIR 2023: The Winnipeg International Writers Festival.

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781773103105/david-bergen/away-from-the-dead

In Away from the Dead, David Bergen takes us to a place where chaos reigns, where answers come from everywhere and nowhere, and where both the beauty and horror of humanity are on full display. As anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army all come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, Bergen embeds his readers into the lives of characters connected through love, family, and loyalty. A bookseller south of Kiev deserts the army and writes poetry to his love back home; an adopted Mennonite-Ukrainian stableboy runs with the anarchists only to discover that love and the planting of crops is preferable to killing; a beautiful young peasant tries to stop a Mennonite landowner from stealing her child. In a world of violence, these three learn to love and hate and love again, hoping, against all odds, that one can turn away from the dead.

Praised by the Montreal Gazette as “one of Canada’s best writers” and by the Globe and Mail as “inventive and electrifying,” David Bergen is the bestselling author of numerous acclaimed novels and short-story collections, including The Time In Between, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Out of Mind, winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. Away from the Dead is his thirteenth book of fiction. He lives in Winnipeg.

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