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It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone.
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Grave, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Cristina Henriquez
- First published
- 2024
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780063291331
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