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2 maj 2018 · Håkan Söderström, the hulking hero of Hernán Diaz’s novel, “In the Distance,” makes a stupendous entrance, ascending onto the first page through a star-shaped void on a featureless plain of...
The next winter, Håkan enters a city and has his first human interactions in several seasons. A cruel and greedy sheriff arrests him, claiming that he is responsible for all of the deaths in the attack on the wagon train.
“Hernan Diaz's novel In the Distance is an isolating story of a man who is separated from his brother as they travel to America, and then his struggle to survive, living off his wits. I checked it out from the library and as soon as I finished it I ran to my local indie bookstore to buy a copy — it’s that good.”
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8 gru 2017 · Hernan Diaz’s strange, absorbing novel “In the Distance” — the story of Håkan Söderström, a Swedish immigrant whose journey in the American West is fraught with confusion, loss, loneliness and seclusion — upends the romance and mythology of America’s Western experience and rugged individualism.
10 paź 2017 · 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, ... No other editions available.
3 paź 2017 · Hernan Diaz. 4.11. 18,196 ratings2,330 reviews. 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.
