More than a glare, it looked like a frozen blast, a detonation suspended in its flashing climax. But the blinding light coming from the ground was unlike anything else, and this strangeness confirmed its reality.
He had seen many pools spring up in the distance and then dispel as he advanced toward them, many hopeful or menacing shapes gather on the horizon that were nothing but the hazy ghosts of heat. Håkan was used to the illusions the desert conjured up from the dust. Walking alongside the burro, he had crossed the shallow river and kept traveling north for several days without incident. And now, there it was, lying on the desert. Only splintered reflections on blades, partial glimpses on lids, quivering images on water, or curved caricatures on glass-never a complete, truthful picture of his features. He had not seen his own face since he had left Clangston. The book tells the story of Håkan, an immigrant from Sweden who makes his way through the American West in the early to mid 1800s.ĭiaz joins Here & Now's Robin Young to talk about the book. Hernan Diaz's debut novel " In the Distance" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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