![]() ![]() ![]() This is the case in The Hunger, Alma Katsu’s gripping novel of the famously ill-fated Donner party. At its best, a historical novel can impart a vivid immediacy to past events, making them live in the reader’s mind, allowing her to draw near to them. If historical fiction has the advantage of using its freedom of invention to achieve the same effect, it has the added challenge of making its innovations square with events as they have been recorded officially. Nowhere is this more true than in books addressing themselves to famous subjects, which must make a greater effort to earn space on bookshelves already crowded. ![]() The Hunger, Alma Katsu ( Putnam 978-0735212510, $27.00, 384pp, hc) March 2018.Įvery history is to some extent a secret history, offering new information on its subject, or, barring that, a fresh perspective, which may yield similar results. ![]()
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