The relationship between time and tension
in the historical novel
Over the holidays, I dove into two newer literary canons of the historical sort. Novels that continue to be all the rage but somehow never made it to my TBR pile until recently. The two novels, ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr, and PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee, had me wrestling with how each author approached the telling of their complex histori…