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In the distance / Hernan Diaz.

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Record Number 879834
ISBN 9781911547235 (paperback)
Author Díaz, Hernán, 1973- author.
Title In the distance / Hernan Diaz.
Publisher/Date London : Daunt Books, 2018.
©2017
Pagination etc. 336 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary Note A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the West. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre (travel narratives, the bildungsroman, nature writing, the Western), offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness. At first, it was a contest, but in time the beasts understood that, with an embrace and the slightest push, they had to lie down on their side and stay until Håkan got up. He did this each time he thought he spied someone on the circular horizon. Had Håkan and his animals ever been spotted, the distant travellers would have taken the vanishing silhouettes for a mirage. But there were no such travelers-the moving shadows he saw almost every day in the distance were illusions. With the double intention of getting away from the trail and the cold, he had travelled south for days.
Subject Swedes -- United States -- Fiction
Male immigrants -- United States -- Fiction
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
Western fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
Shelf Location F DIAZ
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