6/19/2023 0 Comments In the distance hernan diazFrom the moment he sets foot on land, his mission is clear: he must cross the enormous landmass that separates the Pacific from the Atlantic to find Linus. But the boys get separated in Portsmouth, England, and Håkan winds up in gold rush California instead of New York. He and his older brother Linus are sent off to “Nujårk,” a place that Linus tells Håkan is full of magic, wonder and impossibilities. (The narrator describes the “å” in Håkan as a “u that immediately bled into an o, and then into an a, not in succession, but in a warp or a bend, so that for a moment all three sounds were a single one.”) He’s a Swede named Håkan Söderström, who received his nickname of The Hawk due to the fact that nobody in the United States could pronounce his first name. The man is not, he tells his rapt-if wary-audience, a Native American chief. The ship’s restless crew and passengers gather around a fire as they listen to the life story of a mysterious man around whom rumors swirl. In the Distance, Hernán Díaz’s debut novel, begins aboard an ice-breaking vessel trapped in ice off the coast of Alaska in the late 1800s.
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