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In the Distance
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FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
WINNER OF THE WHITING AWARD
WINNER OF THE SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING
WINNTER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD
WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR
The first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust, an exquisite and blisteringly intelligent story of a young Swedish boy, separated from his brother, who becomes a legend and an outlaw
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 criminals, naturalists, religious fanatics, swindlers, American 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.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780593850572
EAN:
9780593850572
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
304
Authors:
Hernan Diaz
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Published Date: 2024-15-10
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great tale of adventure, longing.
Hernan Diaz has written this wonderful novel for our pleasure to contemplate a life journey of an amazing person. Highly recommended.
through a combination of eerily solitary expanses and rough, boisterous encounters, he makes his way - West; if not north, south or east, then West
A good story.
Amazingly written and imagined, the story of an unfortunate boy who leaves his home in Sweden bound for America and has traumatic adventures that drive him to lead a life almost completely in solitude. Read it in only six days but this is a novel born of brilliant insight into the human spirit and imaginatively explored.
