Mercy among the Children

Mercy among the Children is a novel by David Adams Richards, published by Doubleday Canada in 2000. Sarah Slean championed the novel to compete in Canada Reads in 2009.

Awards

The book was a co-winner of the Giller Prize in 2000, with Michael Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost. This was the only tie in the history of the award.

Recipients of the Giller Prize

1990s	M. G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets (1994) Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1996) Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version (1997) Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (1998) Bonnie Burnard, A Good House (1999)

2000s	Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost / David Adams Richards, Mercy among the Children (2000) Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001) Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (2002) M. G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003) Alice Munro, Runaway (2004) David Bergen, The Time in Between (2005) Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2006) Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air (2007) Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (2008) Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop's Man (2009)

2010s	Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists (2010) Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (2011) Will Ferguson, 419 (2012) Lynn Coady, Hellgoing (2013) Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (2014) André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs (2015)

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