A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE
“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
"Exhilarating.” —New York Times
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.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE
“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
"Exhilarating.” —New York Times
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.
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Explorations of historical mythology, finance, and narrative structure define modern literary fiction examining American power, as demonstrated in the multi-layered novel Trust. Hernan Diaz gained widespread critical acclaim through this work, which dissects 1920s Wall Street and the deceptive fictions surrounding accumulated wealth. His novels offer meticulous narrative framing and revisionist perspectives on foundational American genres.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1973, Diaz fled with his family to Sweden at age two following the 1976 military coup, returning to Argentina seven years later when democracy was restored. He pursued higher education at the University of Buenos Aires, earned a master's degree at King's College London, and completed a PhD in comparative literature at New York University. Prior to releasing his fiction, he worked as a professor, academic editor, and associate director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University, and published the academic monograph Borges, between History and Eternity.
Diaz published his debut novel, In the Distance, in 2017 at age 44. The revisionist western follows a Swedish emigrant navigating the nineteenth-century American frontier and became a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His second novel, Trust (2022), earned the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was named one of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the Century. His honors include a Whiting Award and the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and his writings have been translated into thirty-seven languages.
Diaz's literary approach centers on destabilizing narrative authority, interrogating national mythologies, and examining how wealth, power, and class construct competing versions of history. Rather than drawing on personal autobiography, he constructs complex framing devices, nested perspectives, and genre-bending formats that encourage readers to question who controls the historical record. His prose combines rigorous historical research with stylistic experimentation, reflecting his background in comparative literature and critical theory.
2 books in catalog
Explorations of historical mythology, finance, and narrative structure define modern literary fiction examining American power, as demonstrated in the multi-layered novel Trust. Hernan Diaz gained widespread critical acclaim through this work, which dissects 1920s Wall Street and the deceptive fictions surrounding accumulated wealth. His novels offer meticulous narrative framing and revisionist perspectives on foundational American genres.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1973, Diaz fled with his family to Sweden at age two following the 1976 military coup, returning to Argentina seven years later when democracy was restored. He pursued higher education at the University of Buenos Aires, earned a master's degree at King's College London, and completed a PhD in comparative literature at New York University. Prior to releasing his fiction, he worked as a professor, academic editor, and associate director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University, and published the academic monograph Borges, between History and Eternity.
Diaz published his debut novel, In the Distance, in 2017 at age 44. The revisionist western follows a Swedish emigrant navigating the nineteenth-century American frontier and became a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His second novel, Trust (2022), earned the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was named one of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the Century. His honors include a Whiting Award and the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and his writings have been translated into thirty-seven languages.
Diaz's literary approach centers on destabilizing narrative authority, interrogating national mythologies, and examining how wealth, power, and class construct competing versions of history. Rather than drawing on personal autobiography, he constructs complex framing devices, nested perspectives, and genre-bending formats that encourage readers to question who controls the historical record. His prose combines rigorous historical research with stylistic experimentation, reflecting his background in comparative literature and critical theory.
