Cleverly constructed and rich in surprises, this splendid novel offers serious ideas and serious pleasures on every beautifully composed page.” 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. “Though set in a historical New York, Trust speaks to matters of the most urgent significance to the present day. Jacqueline Woodson, author of Red at the Bone Amidst all the noise I the world, whole days found me curled up on the couch, lost inside Diaz’s brilliance.” “That rare jewel of a book-jaw-dropping storytelling against the backdrop of beautiful writing. “A virtuoso performance by an emerging talent… A spellbinding tale that illuminates the impact of money on all our lives.“ Once again, Diaz makes the most of his formidable gifts.” “ kaleidoscope of capitalism run amok in the early 20th century…Grounded in history and formally ambitious, this succeeds on all fronts. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.Īt 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. 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.

Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit. 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. 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. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. An unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perceptionĮven through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask.

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