
In the Distance
Hernan Diaz(Author)
Riverhead Books,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 15. October 2024
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-593-85057-2 (ISBN)
Description
"The first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust, an exquisite and blisteringly intelligent novel of a young Swedish boy, separated from his brother, who becomes a legend and an outlaw A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. 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"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-593-85057-2 (9780593850572)
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Person
Hernan Diaz