![]() ![]() Then they both left, bolting the door behind them. The other man left the room, returned with two bundles, and threw a new suit of clothes on the bed and some rags to wipe up the soapy water on the floor. When his efforts were deemed too timid, one of the men grabbed a brush and scrubbed him down vigorously. A bed, a barred window, a bucket of pine-smelling water. Two men escorted Håkan through the empty barroom and led him upstairs to a room adjacent to the woman’s. He is the Associate Director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University Hernán Díaz is the author of Borges, Between History and Eternity. A tale that defies the conventions of genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness. The story of a young Swedish boy, separated from his brother, becomes a man the man, despite himself, becomes a legend and outlaw. The following is from Hernan Diaz’s novel, In The Distance. ![]()
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