Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2017
Finalist for the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Finalist for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award
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.
Hernan Diaz is the author of Borges, Between History and Eternity (Bloomsbury 2012), managing editor of RHM, and associate director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University. He lives in New York.
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