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Published in 2017, Hernan Diaz’s In the Distance is an adult historical fiction/Western adventure novel. Håkan Söderström, a young Swedish immigrant, travels across the American frontier during the 19th century in search of his brother.
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2 maj 2018 · “In the Distance,” by Hernán Diaz, is a weird western about a lonely Swede traveling America’s frontier in the 1800s. It’s very good.
3 paź 2017 · IN THE DISTANCE. by Hernan Diaz ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 3, 2017. Not for the faint of heart, perhaps, but an ambitious and thoroughly realized work of revisionist historical fiction. bookshelf. shop now. Violent, often surrealistic Wild West yarn, Cormac McCarthy by way of Gabriel García Márquez.
“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.”
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 · Introduction. Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 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.
