Great Divide, the \ Entre DOS Aguas (Spanish Edition) - Henriquez, Cristina
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"Panama, 1907: It is said that the Canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. At a railroad station next to the thundering excavation zone, a young Panamanian canal digger named Omar collapses. For a quiet local boy to take this job was a shocking decision -- especially to his father, a fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of their country. Only one person comes to Omar's aid: a teenaged girl named Ada, newly arrived from Barbados alongside thousands of other West Indian people seeking work. Carefree by nature, she must…mehr

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"Panama, 1907: It is said that the Canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. At a railroad station next to the thundering excavation zone, a young Panamanian canal digger named Omar collapses. For a quiet local boy to take this job was a shocking decision -- especially to his father, a fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of their country. Only one person comes to Omar's aid: a teenaged girl named Ada, newly arrived from Barbados alongside thousands of other West Indian people seeking work. Carefree by nature, she must roll up her sleeves and quickly find a job to send money home for her sleeng sister's medical treatment."--
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Cristina Henríquez is the author of The Great Divide, The Book of Unknown Americans, The World In Half, and Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories. She has been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, The Oxford American, The American Scholar, and elsewhere. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Illinois.