Trust by Hernan Diaz

From an award-winning chronicler of Americas history and its legends comes Diaz's much-anticipated novel about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth 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 brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth. But the secrets around their affluence and grandeur incites gossip. Rumours about Benjamin's financial manoeuvres and Helen's reclusiveness start to spread--all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. At what cost have they acquired their immense fortune?

This is the mystery at the centre of a successful 1938 novel entitled'Bonds', which all of New York seems to have read. But it isn't the only version of this tale of privilege and deceit.

Hernan Diaz's'Trust'brilliantly puts the story of these characters into conversation with other accounts--and in tension with the life and perspective of a young woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that becomes more exhilarating and profound with each new layer and revelation.

Provocative and propulsive,Trustengages the listener in a quest for the truth while confronting the reality-warping gravitational pull of money and how power often manipulates facts. An elegant, multifaceted epic that recovers the voices buried under the myths that justify our foundational inequality,'Trust'is a literary triumph with a beating heart and urgent stakes.

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Format

416 pages, Hardcover, As New

Published

August 4, 2022 by Picador

ISBN 9781529074499