In the Distance

In the Distance

By Hernan Diaz
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“Upends the romance and mythology of America’s Western experience and rugged individualism.”

Minneapolis Star Tribune

A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year

Finalist for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

A Publishers Weekly Pick of Top 10 Books on the History and Future of the Western

Winner of the New American Voices Award

A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. 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.