"Strange and transporting . . . In the Distance [is] an uncanny achievement." --The New York Times

"The prose is as unbroken as the horizon. . . . It's as if Herman Melville had navigated the American West, instead of the ocean." --The Nation

"This suspenseful novel is a potent depiction of loneliness, a memorable immigration narrative, and a canny reinvention of the old-school western." --Publishers Weekly

"Plainspoken and wildly, even cosmically, evocative . . . In the end the reader understands the country's twin potential for horror and hope." --Whiting Award citation

"A singular and deeply affecting portrait of one man's life in a rapidly changing world." --The Guardian

"An ambitious and thoroughly realized work of revisionist historical fiction." --Kirkus Reviews

"In the Distance did something new . . . raising important questions about cultural attitudes made evident by assumptions we make about art, particularly toward guns and immigrants. It's also just a great story." --The Paris Review

"[In the Distance] excels in creating a sense of disorientating foreignness. The result is richly drawn and something like Huckleberry Finn written by Cormac McCarthy: an adventure story as well as a meditation on the meaning of home." --The Sunday Times

"Stitched through with humor, this often-unpredictable novel will keep readers running along with every step of Håkan's odd escapades." --Booklist

"Diaz is bound to join ranks with Borges on the literary scene with this mythical personality, still at large in our consciousness long after we've put down the book." --BookPage

"While set in the American West, this is no conventional Western, as it turns the genre's ste­reotypes upside down, taking place on a frontier as much mythic as real with a main character traveling east." --Library Journal (starred review)

"[An] extraordinary epic tale of a lone man's journey into the heart of the American frontier." --Financial Times