Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Trust. Translated into more than thirty languages, Trust also received the Kirkus Prize, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time magazine, and it was one of The New Yorker’s 12 Essential Reads of the Year and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year. Trust is currently being developed as a limited series for HBO. Diaz’s previous novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and it won the William Saroyan International Prize. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Atlantic, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
Praise for Trust:
“Intricate, cunning and consistently surprising…Much of
the novel's pleasure derives from its unpredictabiility...Add Henry
James to Wharton, and Thomas Mann
too...Exhilarating and intelligent novel.” —New York
Times
“Luminous… Masterful… The drama lies in trying to puzzle out
where Diaz will take you next, what’s been hidden, and why.”—The
New Yorker
“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
“[A] riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed. The result is
a mesmerizing metafictional alchemy of grand scope and even grander
accomplishment.”—Esquire
“There is a dazzling intelligence behind this novel, which
challenges us to rethink everything we know both about the
institutions on which nations are built and the narratives by which
stories are told. Sly, sophisticated, insistently questioning, Diaz
writes with assurance, determined to rob us of every
certainty.”—the Booker Prizes
"Literary fiction…is a fantastic commodity in which our best
writers become criminals of the imagination, stealing our attention
and our very desires. Diaz makes an artistic fortune in Trust. And
we readers make out like bandits, too.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR
“A buzzy and enthralling tour de force… a glorious novel about
empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and
unspeakable misery…Mostly, though, Trust is a literary page-turner,
with a wealth of puns and elegant prose, fun as hell to
read.”—Oprah Daily
“A remarkably accessible treatise on the power of fiction. This
unquestionably smart and sophisticated novel not only mirrors
truth, but helps us to better understand it.”—The Boston Globe
"Ingenious...challenges conventional story lines of another
favorite American theme: capitalism and the accumulation of vast
wealth…Diaz employs his inventive structure to offer intriguing
insights into the hidden roles played by subservient women."
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"The world of Trust feels very close to our own...This book is a
reminder that wealth isn’t a treasure chest and the rich aren’t
magical, no matter how dramatically they shape the world. It’s all
just money, made by real people, with very real, often dangerous
implications." —Vanity Fair
“Rich and prismatic…” —Wall Street Journal
“The only certainty here is Diaz’s brilliance and the value
of his rewarding book…In execution it’s an elegant, irresistible
puzzle.”—The Washington Post
“Wondrous… Diaz is brilliant at dissecting literary conventions and
transforming them into something new.” —The New York Review of
Books
“Through perfectly formed sentences and the skilful unpicking of
certainties, Trust creates a great portrait of New York across an
entire century of change . . . a work possessed of real power and
purpose . . . It’s a testament to Diaz’s cunning abilities as a
writer that you end his book thinking that— if truth is your goal
—you might be better off relying on a novelist than a
banker.”—Jonathan Lee, The Guardian (UK)
“Sharp and affecting . . . Diaz’s great subject is the scale of
American mythmaking . . . It is in his ugly-beautiful portrait of
great wealth that Diaz shows his brilliance . . . In this literary
Rubik’s Cube, Diaz provides a viable, and hugely entertaining,
argument that once a pen is put to paper an element of veracity is
always lost. And when money is thrown into the mix, then the lies
really multiply.”—Financial Times (UK)
“An absolutely brilliant novel… A wily jackalope of a novel — tame
but prickly, a different beast from every angle…The setup is so
shrewd and the writing so immaculate." —Los Angeles Times
“Hernan Diaz, one of the least derivative, most eccentrically
ambitious fiction writers I’ve read in a long while.”
—Jonathan Dee in Harper’s Magazine
“Trust proves that Diaz is a writer of singular talent. This book
is a kaleidoscopic dazzler that works as both an engrossing
literary mystery and a capitalistic takedown for the ages. Don’t
miss it.”—Chicago Review of Books
"A multifaceted saga of class, wealth, and mythmaking that should
resonate with today’s capitalism-questioning readers.”—The
Philadelphia Inquirer
“A uniquely layered novel…Each page peels back another mystery,
making for an utterly riveting read.” —Buzzfeed
“Like a tower of gifts waiting to be unwrapped, Trust offers a
multitude of rewards to be discovered and enjoyed … [a]
beautifully composed masterpiece."—BookPage, STARRED review
“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."—Booklist, STARRED review
“[A] kaleidoscope of capitalism run amok in the early 20th century
. . . Grounded in history and formally ambitious, this succeeds on
all fronts. Once again, Diaz makes the most of his formidable
gifts.”—Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review
“A feat of literary gamesmanship [that] brilliantly weaves its
multiple perspectives to create a symphony of emotional effects . .
. [T]he collection of palimpsests makes for a thrilling experience
...A clever and affecting high-concept novel of high
finance.”—Kirkus, STARRED review
“Hernan Diaz is a narrative genius whose work easily encompasses
both a grand scope and the crisp and whiplike line. Trust
builds its world and characters with subtle aplomb. What
a radiant, profound and moving novel.”—Lauren Groff, New York
Times bestselling author of Matrix
“Diaz understands, and deeply, how strange money is, as an
omnipotent and imaginary substance that controls our lives. Trust
glints with wonder and knowledge and mystery. Its plotlines are as
etched and surreal as Art Deco geometry, while inside that
architecture are people who feel appallingly real. This novel is
very classical and very original: Balzac would be proud, but so
would Borges.”—Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling author of
The Mars Room
“That rare jewel of a book—jaw-dropping storytelling against the
backdrop of beautiful writing. Amidst all the noise in the world,
whole days found me curled up on the couch, lost inside Diaz’s
brilliance.”—Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author
of Red at the Bone
“Though set in a historical New York, Trust speaks to matters of
the most urgent significance to the present day. Money, power,
class, marital and filial relations, the roles played by trust and
betrayal in human affairs—Diaz’s development of his chosen themes
is deeply insightful. Cleverly constructed and rich in surprises,
this splendid novel offers serious ideas and serious pleasures on
every beautifully composed page.” —Sigrid Nunez, National Book
Award–winning author of The Friend
“Sublime, richly layered novel. A story within a story within a
story. Elegantly written.”—Roxane Gay, bestselling author of
Difficult Women
“The audacity and scope of Hernan Diaz’s extraordinary novel—a
prism, a mystery, a revelation—are brilliantly matched by the
quality of his prose.”—Jean Strouse, author of Morgan: American
Financier
"What a joy this is to read, suspenseful at every turn, the work of
a rare and impressive talent. Diaz has once again taken apart an
American myth and pondered how we lie to ourselves.”—Joan Silber,
National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Improvement
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