Håkan’s epic journey reminds us how the self is often hammered into existence by pain and longing. He does this in language that can be plainspoken and wildly, even cosmically, evocative. It’s the second that makes the first feel new. “Hernan Diaz explores two kinds of wilderness: the immensely taxing newness of the American West and the still-forming interiority of Håkan, a Swedish immigrant desperate to find a way back home.
And its ability to create lustrous mindscapes from wide-open spaces, from voids that are never empty." - The 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. "Strange and transporting. A weirdness to which a reader willingly submits, because of the vigorous beauty of words. In the Distance an uncanny achievement: an original Western. "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." Pulitzer Prize Finalist Citation
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