Awards
- Prix Transfuge du Meilleur Roman de Littérature Hispanique 2017 (France) - Finalist
- Vargas Llosa Biannual Award 2017 (Peru) - Finalist
- Prix Médicis Étranger 2017 (France) - Longlisted
- English PEN Award
Reviews/Endorsements
"This is a book to set alongside Philip Roth's Patrimony, Héctor Abad's Oblivion, Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude, Martin Amis's Experience, Albert Camus' The First Man, and of course Kafka's Letter to His Father." –Thierry Clermont, Le Figaro
"This is an impressive book. In writing it the author demonstrates great talent, as well as great courage." –Mario Vargas Llosa
"No one that reads this book will be able to look at their family in the same way again." –Gabriela Wiener
"An extraordinary family story... Renato Cisneros delivers here the captivating narrative of a strange and disturbing filiation.
A loving and lucid puzzle." –Le Monde (France)
"People should read this novel to learn more about themselves." –Jorge Edwards
"Cisneros is a phenomenon in Latin America today." –Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, El País (Spain)
"A book so intelligent and moving, you wish it would never end." –Libération (France)
"The Distance Between Us is the story of a villain told from love. It dwells in the humanity hidden behind the themes left by war. It also narrates that other war: the one which all of us wage against our parents to become the persons we are." –Santiago Roncagliolo
"The Distance Between Us goes far and appeals to the reader exactly because there is so little distance between what is written and what was lived." –Alberto Fuguet
"Just as a father is never prepared to bury his son, a son is never prepared to dig up his father"(...) It is within this tension that this magnificent novel lies, full of drama and suspense from the very first page." –Edmundo Paz Soldán
