In the Distance

Name: In the Distance
Author: Hernan Diaz
ISBN: 9781566894975

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In the Distance won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year. A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, from whom he was separated in the crowds and chaos during their journey across the sea. Moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West, he is driven back again and again, meeting naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen—and his exploits turn him into a legend. Just as its hero pushes against the tide, this widely acclaimed novel defies genre conventions—and upends the romance and mythology of America's Western experience and rugged individualism.

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