A superb and original achievement.
Pulitzer Prize Finalist debut from the author of Trust. A young Swedish immigrant journeys east across the brutal American West, searching for his brother and becoming legend. Winner of the Whiting Award and a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book—literary fiction that defies convention and lingers long after the final page.
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A young Swedish boy steps off a ship in California, penniless and utterly alone. His brother is somewhere out there—but where? What follows is an extraordinary journey eastward, against the tide of westward expansion, through a landscape both brutal and breathtaking.
In the Distance is the stunning debut novel from Hernán Diaz, who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for his masterwork Trust. This earlier triumph earned its own constellation of honors—Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, Winner of the Whiting Award—and it’s easy to see why. Diaz crafts a story that defies the well-worn paths of historical fiction, offering instead something wholly original: a meditation on loneliness, legend, and what it means to be radically foreign in an unfamiliar land.
As our protagonist travels, he encounters an unforgettable cast: criminals and naturalists, religious zealots and swindlers, American Indians and lawmen. His exploits transform him into myth, but Diaz never loses sight of the human heart beating beneath the legend. This is a novel that questions the stereotypes we’ve inherited about the American West and asks us to look closer at the stories we tell ourselves about belonging.
Blisteringly intelligent and exquisitely written, In the Distance lingers long after the final page. Perfect for readers who crave literary fiction that challenges conventions while delivering an utterly gripping narrative. A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year that deserves a place on your shelf.
A superb and original achievement.
A grand picaresque, a dark fable, and a radiant adventure story...Diaz's prose is precise and lovely, and his narrative gifts are formidable.
Diaz's debut is a marvel, a sweeping adventure tale in the tradition of the great quest narratives, yet one that interrogates the genre's often troubling tropes...A brilliant, beautifully written book.
Diaz's prose is stunning...A brilliant subversion of the traditional Western.
Magnificent...A triumph of style and storytelling.
An astonishing debut...Diaz has written a novel that is both a gripping adventure and a meditation on the American myth.
A lyrical, haunting epic of one man's search for his brother across the American West.
Remarkable...A novel that upends the myths of the American frontier.
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