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Håkan, a Swedish immigrant, arrives penniless and alone in California and sets out eastward to find his brother, traversing the vast American frontier on foot. Throughout his travels he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indigenous peoples, and lawmen. His story, told through Diaz’s lens, examines the stereotypes that shape the past and offers a portrait of radical foreignness, challenging conventions of historical fiction, travel narratives, bildungsroman, nature writing, and the Western genre.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Western Fiction/Historical Western
Authors: Hernán Díaz
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