Trust
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 - Vulture, AV Club, Lithub, Oprah Daily, Goodreads
A literary puzzle about money, power, and intimacy, TRUST is a novel that challenges the myths shrouding wealth, and the fictions that often pass for history.
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth-all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune?
This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1938 novel that all of New York seems to have read. But it isn't the only version of this story of privilege and deceit.
Hernan Diaz's TRUST brilliantly puts this narrative into conversation with other accounts-and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation. Provocative and propulsive, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the reality-warping gravitational pull of capital and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
CO-WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
PRAISE FOR TRUST
"For all its elegant complexity and brilliant construction, Diaz's novel is compulsively readable, and despite taking place in the early 1900s, the plot reads like an indictment of the start of the twenty-first century with its obsession with obscure financial instruments and unhinged capital accumulation. A captivating tour de force that will astound readers with its formal invention and contemporary relevance." - The Booklist
"A rip-roaring, razor-sharp dissection of capitalism, class, greed, and the meaning of money itself that also manages to be a dazzling feat of storytelling on its own terms... Important and timely. But the uniquely brilliant way in which Diaz tells that story, as meticulously researched as it is narratively exhilarating, makes it a novel not just for the present age but for the ages." - Vogue
'EXHILARATING' - New York Times
'SUBLIME' - Roxane Gay
'DAZZLING' - Vogue
'GENIUS' - Lauren Groff
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Trust is a complex literary novel that’s also an absolute joy to read. Hernán Díaz (author of the Pulitzer-nominated In the Distance) constructs his story like a series of nesting dolls. The story starts as a 1930s-era novel about shadowy New York financier Benjamin Rask and his emotionally fragile wife, Helen. When that book’s real-life inspiration is outraged about the way the bestseller misrepresents his wife, he begins writing a memoir of his own. Trust then takes two more big turns that are too good to spoil. Suffice to say, Díaz’s novel is about money and power and love, as well as who gets to tell their own stories. This is a book that fans of writers as different as Edith Wharton and David Mitchell will enjoy—and a surefire book club favourite.
