The two things come together in this book. I liked to think about legend and history. Gossip, rumor, is the first literary genre, prior to religion. But before there is the gossip - jokes Hernán Díaz, an author who speaks several languages. «The legend is the most primitive, essential and primal way of giving meaning to the world. His tribulations will make him a respected and sought after figure. He was baptized as Hakam in his homeland, Sweden, but in America everyone will recognize him as the 'Falcon,' a confusion that derives from the pronunciation of his name in English.

Its protagonist is the embodiment of helplessness and a fantastic story for his peers, who admire him, fear him and want to hunt him. A work calibrated to unload common places. 'In the distance', his novel, is a Wester written with the rules and norms of the Wester, but made against the Wester. The railroad and the gold rush ravaged nature and men acted like wolves, if it is allowed to evoke Thomas Hobbes.

There was slavery, genocide and violence. That adventure was not a pacifying deed, the advance of civilization over barbarism. The conquest of the West differs from the impression left by John Wayne's films and his gun holster. A reality that separates from what airs movies and topics. His book is an attempt to tear the tree of the country of rennet to leave the true roots on which the United States is based. A whole merit for a novelist who was born in Buenos Aires, has lived in the Nordic countries and now resides in the United States. Despite that he has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen / Faulkner Award. The nations settle on the story of epic stories and he has written a demystifying narrative. Hernán Díaz has written an «anti-legend».

Diaz in the distance