Praise for In the Distance : "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 "Strange and transporting . In the Distance [is] an uncanny achievement." -- The New York Times "The prose is as unbroken as the horizon. It's as if Herman Melville had navigated the American West, instead of the ocean." --The Nation "This suspenseful novel is a potent depiction of loneliness, a memorable immigration narrative, and a canny reinvention of the old-school western." -- Publishers Weekly "Plainspoken and wildly, even cosmically, evocative . In the end the reader understands the country's twin potential for horror and hope.

" --Whiting Award citation "A singular and deeply affecting portrait of one man's life in a rapidly changing world." -- The Guardian "An ambitious and thoroughly realized work of revisionist historical fiction." -- Kirkus Reviews " In the Distance did something new . raising important questions about cultural attitudes made evident by assumptions we make about art, particularly toward guns and immigrants. It's also just a great story." -- The Paris Review "[ In the Distance ] excels in creating a sense of disorientating foreignness. The result is richly drawn and something like Huckleberry Finn written by Cormac McCarthy: an adventure story as well as a meditation on the meaning of home." -- The Sunday Times "Stitched through with humor, this often-unpredictable novel will keep readers running along with every step of Håkan's odd escapades.

" -- Booklist "Diaz is bound to join ranks with Borges on the literary scene with this mythical personality, still at large in our consciousness long after we've put down the book." --BookPage "While set in the American West, this is no conventional Western, as it turns the genre's ste­reotypes upside down, taking place on a frontier as much mythic as real with a main character traveling east." -- Library Journal (starred review) "[An] extraordinary epic tale of a lone man's journey into the heart of the American frontier." --Financial Times.