"Diaz cleverly updates an old-fashioned yarn, and his novel is rife with exquisite moments."-Publishers Weekly,boxed and starred review
He lives in New York.įinalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for FictionA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2017Finalist for the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Hernan Diazis the author of Borges, Between History and Eternity(Bloomsbury 2012), managing editor of RHM, and associate director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radicalforeignness. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West.
Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for FictionĪ young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California.
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