“Hernan Diaz’s In the Distance is exquisite: assured, moving, and masterful, as profound and precise an evocation of loneliness as any book I’ve ever read.” -Lauren Groff And its ability to create lustrous mindscapes from wide-open spaces, from voids that are never empty.” -New York Times “An affecting oddness is the great virtue of In the Distance, along with its wrenching evocations of its main character’s loneliness and grief. 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. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for FictionĪ young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California.
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