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In the distance

"A young Swedish boy finds himself penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the West. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, a...

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Main Author: Díaz, Hernán, 1973- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [2017]
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Swedes > United States > Fiction.
Male immigrants > United States > Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life > Fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Western stories.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
Western fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
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Summary:"A young Swedish boy finds himself penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the West. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre (travel narratives, the bildungsroman, nature writing, the Western), offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness. At first, it was a contest, but in time the beasts understood that, with an embrace and the slightest push, they had to lie down on their side and stay until Håkan got up. He did this each time he thought he spied someone on the circular horizon. Had Håkan and his animals ever been spotted, the distant travelers would have taken the vanishing silhouettes for a mirage. But there were no such travelers-the moving shadows he saw almost every day in the distance were illusions. With the double intention of getting away from the trail and the cold, he had traveled south for days. 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. He lives in New York"--
Physical Description:256 pages ; 22 cm
Awards:Finalist, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2018
ISBN:9780593850565
0593850564
9781566894883
1566894883
Author Notes:Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best­selling author of Trust . His first novel, In the Distance , was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, was translated into more than twenty languages, and was one of Publishers Weekly 's Top 10 books of the year and Literary Hub 's twenty best novels of the decade. Trust was translated into more than thirty languages, received the Kirkus Prize, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times , The Washington Post , NPR, and Time magazine, and it was one of The New Yorker 's 12 Essential Reads of the Year and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year. His work has appeared in The Paris Review , Granta , The Atlantic , Harper's Magazine , McSweeney's , and elsewhere. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

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