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Trust by Hernan Diaz

An exceptional novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception

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.

Spanning a century, Hernan Diaz’s Trust elegantly puts four competing narratives into conversation with one another. 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.

“Rich and Prismatic”                                                 “Exhilarating”                             “An elegant, irresistible puzzle”

-The Wall Street Journal                                          -The New York Times                  -The Washington Post

About The Author

Hernan Diaz is the author of two novels translated into more than thirty languages. His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Atlantic, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the William Saroyan International Prize for writing, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.