Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 430 Ratings
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Publisher Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE
An “exhilarating” (New York Times) and unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception, from the bestselling author of the forthcoming novel PLY
“Buzzy and enthralling . . . A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery . . . Fun as hell to read.” —Oprah Daily
"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression." —Vanity Fair
“A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed.” —Esquire
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 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.
At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Trust is a complex literary novel that’s also an absolute joy to listen to. Hernan Diaz (In the Distance) constructs his story like a series of nesting dolls. It starts as a novel from the 1930s 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, Diaz’s novel is about money and power and love, as well as the question of who gets to tell their own stories. Four different narrators, led by veteran Edoardo Ballerini, do a wonderful job with each new swing the story takes. This is a book that fans of writers as different as Edith Wharton and David Mitchell will enjoy and a surefire book club favorite.
Customer Reviews
Perspectivetaking
I truly loved this novel and found it brilliant. Its structure was not predictable so it took some attention to understand but once I found its rhythm, i really loved it. I was a bit confused as to why Bevel was so tightlipped about his wife. Did he not know her or was his ego so large he could not admit that he wasn’t the genius everyone thought he was? Either way, it was sad that he couldn’t describe her as anything other than a timid, meek music lover.
Extraordinary!
Reminiscent in style to William Faulkner with its multiple narrators, I could not put this book down. One of the finest examples of contemporary literature I have had the privilege of reading. It is not a wonder why Diaz earned the Pulitzer Prize. Spellbinding from first to last.
Trust
Loved this! A little confused when they started the new chapter in the new “voice”. So googled it to find out what was going on and went on absolutely loved the last part the best.