“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 Cited by: 2. "In the Distance by Hernan Diaz sends a shotgun blast through standard received notions of the Old West and who was causing trouble in it. Håkan and his adventures, which are truly extraordinary, not to mention beautifully written, had me from the novel's first striking chapter to the last.". “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 Cited by: 2.
Finalist: In the Distance, by Hernan Diaz (Coffee House Press) Share: Twitter Facebook Email A gorgeously written novel that charts one man's growth from boyhood to mythic status as he journeys between continents and the extremes of the human condition. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Hernan Diaz has published stories and essays in Cabinet, The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. His first novel, In the Distance, was the winner of the Saroyan International Prize, the Cabell Award, the Prix Page America, and the New American Voices Award, among other distinctions. I feel an urge to categorize In the Distance as a Western, but it seems that you might object to that. DIAZ. Is it a Western? To some extent, because, of course, it takes place in the West. However, the novel is set, for the most part, in antebellum America, and most Westerns are post-Civil War. That's a big difference.
In the Distance by Hernan Diaza western like no other The writing is exceptionalit is what I love the best, among multiple bests. The feeling of being The Other, left to navigate society without the resource of confidence, tongue, interpretation of tongue, familiar face, place or caretaker. A Swedish boy walks across 19th-century America in a thrilling coming-of-age narrative that critiques frontier myths. Hernan Diaz’s hero heads east against the unstoppable tide of immigrants. "In the Distance by Hernan Diaz sends a shotgun blast through standard received notions of the Old West and who was causing trouble in it. Håkan and his adventures, which are truly extraordinary, not to mention beautifully written, had me from the novel's first striking chapter to the last.".
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