Book guide
The Great Divide
Behind the Panama Canal’s grandeur are the lives, loves and losses history tried to forget.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
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About The Great Divide
Set during the construction of the Panama Canal, the novel illuminates the unsung workers and families who lived, laboured and dreamed in its shadow. Through an ensemble of Panamanian, Caribbean and American characters, it explores ambition, sacrifice and the human cost of a world-changing project.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Balanced
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- death
- colonisation
- racism
- grief
- miscarriage
- medical content
- classism
- sexism
- terminal illness
- suicide
