The Time in Between

David Bergen · 2005 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Charles Boyden, a Canadian who served in Vietnam, goes back to Danang and disappears there. His adult children, Ida and Jon, who have grown up beside his silence, travel out to look for him. A Canadian novel of inherited war trauma, it won the 2005 Giller Prize.

Open The Time in Between in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.

Attributes

Closest analogues

• Reel
  George Szirtes · 2004 CE · Poem

  62% · 11 shared
  PsychologicalLoss of InnocenceMemory & TimeExile & HomecomingWar & ViolenceContemporaryWandererExile and Returnvs Selfvs SocietyElegiac
• Ida
  Pawel Pawlikowski · 2014 CE · Film

  59% · 12 shared
  PsychologicalMemory & TimeGuilt & ConscienceContemporaryWandererInnocentExile and ReturnThe Journeyvs Selfvs SocietyRealistElegiac
• Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
  Mahmoud Darwish · 1995 CE · Poem

  59% · 11 shared
  Loss of InnocenceMemory & TimeExile & HomecomingContemporaryWandererInnocentExile and ReturnThe Journeyvs Selfvs SocietyElegiac
• Questions of Travel
  Elizabeth Bishop · 1965 CE · Poem

  57% · 11 shared
  PsychologicalLoss of InnocenceMemory & TimeExile & HomecomingContemporaryWandererThe Journeyvs Selfvs SocietyElegiacModern / American
• Fault Lines
  Nancy Huston · 2006 CE · Novel

  57% · 11 shared
  NovelPsychologicalLoss of InnocenceMemory & TimeWar & ViolenceGuilt & ConscienceContemporaryInnocentvs Selfvs SocietyRealist
• My Old Home
  Lu Xun · 1921 CE · Short Story

  55% · 10 shared
  PsychologicalLoss of InnocenceMemory & TimeExile & HomecomingWandererExile and Returnvs Selfvs SocietyRealistElegiac