'What Diaz pulls off here is that rare feat of drawing on literary and filmic traditions, only to conjure something completely fresh and strange. 'This suspenseful novel is a potent depiction of loneliness, a memorable immigration narrative, and a canny reinvention of the old-school western.' -Publishers Weekly 'Hernan Diaz's In the Distance is exquisite: assured, moving, and masterful, as profound and precise an evocation of loneliness as any book I've ever read.' -Lauren Groff 'Stitched through with humor, this often-unpredictable novel will keep readers running along with every step of Håkan's odd escapades.' -Booklist An ambitious and thoroughly realized work of revisionist historical fiction.' -Kirkus 'As Diaz, who delights in playful language, lists, and stream-of-consciousness prose, reconstructs adventures, he evokes the multicultural nature of westward expansion, in which immigrants did the bulk of the hard labor and suffered the gravest dangers.

'Diaz cleverly updates an old-fashioned yarn, and his novel is rife with exquisite moments.' -Publishers Weekly, boxed and starred review And its ability to create lustrous mindscapes from wide-open spaces, from voids that are never empty.' -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. Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writingįinalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fictionįinalist for the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fictionįinalist for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award

Diaz in the distance