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Cristina Henríquez’s The Great Divide: A Novel was published by Ecco (an imprint of HarperCollins) in March 2024: “A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there.” [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Description: It…
Whenever I see a historical novel that’s clearly a historical novel — the curlicue cover fonts, windswept beaches, hooped dresses, moody Renaissance hues, tall-masted schooners, maybe a helicopter to suggest Vietnam — I cringe. I feel bad for the writer. Because the idiot part of myself whispers that historical fiction was a terrible mistake. It’s one of those residual, myopic cultural ...
“The Great Divide” is set a century ago during the digging of the Panama Canal, and not on the fringes, but among men constructing it.
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