In the Distance
by Hernan Diaz
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A young Swedish boy finds himself penniless and alone in California. He travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the west. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, H?kan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. D?az defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre (travel narratives, the bildungsroman, nature writing, the Western), offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness.At first, it was a contest, but in time the beasts understood that, with an embrace and the slightest push, they had to lie down on their side and stay until H?kan got up. He did this each time he thought he spied someone on the circular horizon. Had H?kan and his animals ever been spotted, the distant travelers would have taken the vanishing silhouettes for a mirage. But there were no such travelers?the moving
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