He’s a foreigner in the West, even though everyone there is not from the area. There was almost no dialogue in the first half of the books because Håkan didn’t speak English and didn’t understand what was being said. Those who read the book noticed something that passed me by. We didn’t feel the narrator’s voice matched the story. There were a few of us who listened to the audiobook for this one and we found that those of us who listened disliked the book more than those who read it. Most Westerns are about an idealized and mythological West that’s common in literature but isn’t necessarily true of history. It was pointed out that most Westerns set in the late 1800s like this one were not written during that time period.
The corrupt Shariff is an example of the American Dream of the West gone sour. The story shows the chaos of the Wild West more than the heroic side that’s often portrayed in Westerns. It’s a bit of a travel novel and a Western. He didn’t travel to the locations he mentioned to research the novel. Díaz lived in first Sweeden and then Argentina before moving to New York. The book was sent int during an open call for manuscripts and is his first novel, which he’d been working on for years. Our leader had some great information about Díaz. I had less than two hours left of the audio when we met.
I couldn’t manage to finish In the Distance by Hernán Díaz in time for our meeting.
It is rare for me to not finish a book before our book club meets, but that’s what happened this past week.
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