“As Diaz, who delights in playful language, lists, and stream-of-consciousness prose, reconstructs adventures, he evokes the multicultural nature of westward expansion, in which immigrants did the bulk of the hard labor and suffered the gravest dangers.

“Diaz cleverly updates an old-fashioned yarn, and his novel is rife with exquisite moments.” -Publishers Weekly, boxed and starred review And its ability to create lustrous mindscapes from wide-open spaces, from voids that are never empty.” -New York Times

“An affecting oddness is the great virtue of In the Distance, along with its wrenching evocations of its main character’s loneliness and grief. “A gorgeously written novel that charts one man’s growth from boyhood to mythic status as he journeys between continents and the extremes of the human condition.” -Pulitzer Prizes Literary Hub, “The 20 Best Novels of the Decade” Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Awardįinalist for the 2018 Clark Fiction Prizeįeminist Press, “FP Staff Picks: the Best Books of 2017”īrazos Bookstore, “Best-Selling Fiction of 2017”Įast Bay Booksellers, “Bookseller Favorites of 2017” Winner of the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Awardįinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fictionįinalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award To purchase this title for use with a screen reader please call (612) 338-0125 or email us at of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Thanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement Grant administered by VSA Minnesota for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, this title is also formatted for screen readers which make text accessible to the blind and visually impaired. Hernan Diaz is the author of Borges, Between History and Eternity (Bloomsbury 2012), managing editor of RHM, and associate director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing west. 978-1-56689-488-3 A young Swedish boy, separated from his brother, becomes a man the man, despite himself, becomes a legend and outlaw.Ī young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California.

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