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“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
“Hernan Diaz understands, and deeply, how strange money is, as an omnipotent and imaginary substance that controls our lives. His novel 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
“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
“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
“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
“In this glorious puzzle of a novel, perspectives keep shifting and the wealth of one early-twentieth-century family keeps changing its origin-story. What a joy this is to read, suspenseful at every turn, the work of a rare and impressive talent. Hernan Diaz has once again taken apart an American myth and pondered how we lie to ourselves.”—Joan Silber
“Sublime, richly layered novel. A story within a story within a story. Elegantly written . . . This is just sublime.”
—Roxane Gay
“Trust is an epic and surprising account of how a financier helped shape the US in the 20th century. For a novel of such intelligence, it is highly readable and absolutely memorable.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen
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“Intricate, cunning and consistently surprising . . . Diaz has the whole literary past at his fingertips . . . Much of the novel’s pleasure derives from its unpredictability, from its section-by-section series of formal surprises . . . [An] exhilarating and intelligent novel.”—Michael Gorra, The New York Times
“Diaz’s spotlight on stories behind stories seeks out the dark workings behind capitalism, as well as the uncredited figures behind the so-called Great Men of history. It’s an exhilarating pursuit.”—The New York Times (10 Best Books of 2022)
“The only certainty here is Diaz’s brilliance and the value of his rewarding book . . . In execution, [Trust] is an elegant, irresistible puzzle. The novel isn’t just about the way history and biography are written; it’s a demonstration of that process. By the end, the only voice I had any faith in belonged to Diaz.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post (10 Best Books of 2022)
“Trust is an ingeniously constructed historical novel with a postmodern point: namely, that readers can't wholly ‘trust any of the slippery stories we read here”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR (Top 10 Books of 2022)
“Diaz cleverly weaves . . . disparate strands together while showing how our shifting perception of the story relates to wealth’s ability to ‘bend and align reality’ to its own motives.”—The New Yorker (12 Best books of 2022)
“A dazzling story about subjectivity and greed.”—Time (10 Best Books of 2022)
“A virtuoso showcase for the author’s talent and an affecting tale of partnership, betrayal and loss.”—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times (5 Best Novels of 2022)
“Lush, layered . . . On top of landing on our list of the best books of 2022, Trust has been named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, NPR, Oprah Daily and more . . . Readers are tasked with sorting fact from fiction in a riveting, four-part story that booms with echoes of 1920s New York and lessons about wealth and ruin that still apply today.”—Reader’s Digest (10 Best Books of 2022)
“A brilliant novel of ideas . . . but the experience of reading Trust is no bloodless intellectual exercise. At its heart—as at the heart of all great books—is the mystery of human beings, the truth of who they are, and whether that truth can ever be sufficiently told.”—Slate (10 Best Books of 2022)
“Multiple perspectives make Trust dazzlingly inventive and deeply moving.”—Kate Tuttle, People (10 Best Books of 2022)
“The smartest book I read all year. It was one of those books that made me feel instantly smarter for having read it.”—Barbara VandenBurgh, USA Today (5 Books to Remember in 2022)
“Like a tower of gifts waiting to be unwrapped, Trust offers a multitude of rewards to be discovered and enjoyed, its sharp observations so finely layered as to demand an immediate rereading . . . [A] literary feast . . . [A] beautifully composed masterpiece.”—BookPage, STARRED review (10 Best Books of 2022)
“Diaz takes a new angle into the story of a dynastic fortune, the inscrutable son who inherits it, and his brilliant wife . . . It's an artful approach to a traditional story”—Elle (15 Best Books of 2022)
“A clever, literary kaleidoscope that constantly challenges the realities it puts forward, requiring you to step back, and look again. You may have to read it more than once.”—iNews (10 Best Books of 2022)
“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 (Best Books of 2022)
“[A] riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed. The result is a mesmerizing metafictional alchemy of grand scope and even grander accomplishment.”—Esquire (Best Books of 2022)
“A formidable exploration of wealth, social class and self-definition.”—The New York Times (Best Historical Fiction of 2022)
“[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 . . . [R]iveting and full of surprises . . . Important and timely. 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 (Best Books of 2022)
“A masterpiece of competing perspectives that puts truth and its relativity front and center. Page by page, Hernan Diaz introduces layers of complexity to his characters, all while dissecting wealth, greed, and love. As you follow the efforts of one woman to unravel fact from fiction, the reality that we are all editing our own narratives takes hold.”—Vanity Fair (Best Books of 2022)
“As an American epic, Trust gives The Great Gatsby a run for its money . . . Trust is 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.”—Hamilton Cain, Oprah Daily (Best Books of 2022)
“A uniquely constructed novel . . . As in life, unreliable narrators abound, making for a rapturous, unforgettable reading journey.”—Joshua Sanders, The Boston Globe (Best Books of 2022)
“One of the best books I’ve read in years.—Bill Goldstein, NBC (Best books of 2022)
“Hernan Diaz's Trust emerged as both novel of the year and overall book of the year.”—Publishers Market (The Very Best of the Best Books of 2022)
“This book . . . has the cleverest structure I’ve seen in some time . . . Read it now . . . and let its surprises envelope you.”—The Seattle Times (Best Books of 2022)
“The friend who alerted me to Trust did so with the recommendation that Diaz’s exploration of money, power and reputation management would be ‘perfect’ for the FT. Having raced through it, I can see why . . . In a time of evermore bizarre billionaire behaviour it feels very relevant.”—Frederick Studemann, Literary Editor Financial Times (Best Books of 2022)
“Trust is one of those novels that's always pulling a fast one on a reader . . . Sharply realized . . . Captivating . . . An ingeniously constructed historical novel with a postmodern point…[Diaz] makes an artistic fortune in Trust. And we readers make out like bandits, too”—Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air (NPR, Best Books of 2022)
“A rare novel about money where the author understands market dynamics. Technically interesting, brilliantly written and a Russian doll-style plot that keeps you reading and guessing.”—Sir Howard Davies, Chairman NatWest Group, Bloomberg (Best Books of 2022)
“Diaz’s novel is 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 and a testament to the power and danger of the truth—or a version of it—when it’s set down in print. A clever and affecting high-concept novel.”—Kirkus, STARRED review (Best Books of 2022)
“Diaz . . . explores one man's ruthless pursuit of capital . . . though the classic Great Man narrative itself turns out to be a Trojan horse for something far more feminist, subversive, and strange.”—Entertainment Weekly (Best Books of 2022)
“I am torn, because I want to tell you why this book is amazing, but I read it without knowing anything about it, so I want you to have that magical experience, too . . . A stunning work of fiction . . . incredible. Immediately top five of the year for me.”—Book Riot (Best Books of 2022)
“A tricksy, tantalising delight . . . A mysterious tale of capital is made economic catastrophe, marriage and mythmaking, and a playful look at subterfuge and storytelling.”—The Daily Mail (Best Books of 2022)
“Hernan Diaz [is] one of the least derivative, most eccentrically ambitious fiction writers I’ve read in a long while. One of the many levels on which [Trust] succeeds is that of a puzzle . . . Trust is a story about the fight over control of a story . . . Diaz shows us something about American success stories: that they are always told to serve their tellers . . . [H]e does the job perfectly, then finds a quietly savage way to undo it.”—Jonathan Dee, Harper’s
“A fabulous book, the structure of which is just gorgeous and tells an awful lot about what I’d like to think of as nonfiction entertainment by way of a novel.”—Tom Hanks, The Ezra Klein Show
“Hernan Diaz’s clever novel is deservedly in the running for the Booker Prize . . . Diaz knows how to build a narrative puzzle . . . [and] can apparently channel any style . . . You sense that [he] could master any genre and Trust is metafiction at its best, unpredictable, clever and massively enjoyable.”—Francesca Angelini, The Sunday Times (UK)
“Wondrous . . . Diaz is brilliant at dissecting literary conventions and transforming them into something new . . . Nested realities and questions around authenticity are Borgesian hallmarks . . . But Diaz reminds me more of Nabokov. Their works share, among other things, the unreliability of dueling narrators, a dexterous self-consciousness, a knowing artifice, and the primacy of ‘reality’ . . . Diaz’s subject is American literature—not its genres, though he does work within those, but the principles that animate the American imagination. In his novels, Diaz has punctured two of the defining characteristics of American history: rugged individualism and the exceptionalism of capitalist enterprise.”—Nicole Rudick, New York Review of Books
“Rich and prismatic . . . A highly stimulating sense of narrative pressure builds up . . . [a]nd this volatile process by which history is formed has an enticing correspondence with behind-the-scenes manipulations of the market . . . Excellent . . . Finely poised mysteries.”—The Wall Street Journal
“I have high praise for this book. Not only did I love it, but my mother Hilary loved it as well. So, Double Meyers!”—Seth Meyers, Late Night with Seth Meyers
“Trust takes the challenge of narrating the entanglements of modern-day capitalism head-on . . . and deftly illustrates how stories about the nation’s exceptionalism are inextricable from the circulation of money . . . Trust [turns] the screws of both genre and structure . . . Diaz keeps us guessing at what is ‘real’”—The Atlantic
“A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ‘20s and Great Depression . . . the world of Trust feels very close to our own . . . Trust unpacks the stories we tell ourselves about money, what they capture, and what they exclude.”—Vanity Fair
“Diaz has given us a thoroughly literary novel . . . Like four exquisite dioramas, Diaz has set up all of these stories with great precision to present two fundamental questions: Why do we tell stories? And at what cost are those stories told? . . . This unquestionably smart and sophisticated novel not only mirrors truth, but helps us to better understand it.”—The Boston Globe
“Genius . . . The novel’s Rashomon-like structure is buttressed by Diaz’s astute grasp of the ways in which we reliably deceive ourselves . . . Trust is the rare novel that incorporates both its source material and afterlife. The contours of the plot might feel familiar at times, but you’re propelled forward by the twists and turns of the novel’s form, the conviction that Diaz has another trick up his sleeve.”—Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The Guardian (UK)
“Hernan Diaz has produced a charming, glowing novel, best read at least twice. But Trust isn't merely clever: the bones are lovely, and so is the skin. It is funny. It becomes a family saga . . . It is a polyphonic Russian doll of a narrative that somehow avoids gimmickry and manages to look at itself from every angle, courting self-deception even as it tries to win our trust.”—Jakob Hofmann, The Times Literary Supplement (UK)
“[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
“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
“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)a
“Hernan Diaz is a literary perfectionist. This book is as exciting as a crime thriller, although no one is killed . . . You read a little faster with each page because you want to know how it all ends, how the many threads that are spun here are woven into a finished text . . . Genius . . . How Diaz links capital and life and turns ice into embers is unique.”—Der Spiegel
“This brilliant, page-turning puzzle box could win the Booker Prize . . . The knotty ingenuity of Trust makes it easy to see how it’s won its place on this year’s Booker longlist. Destined to be known as one of the great puzzle-box novels, it’s the cleverest of conceits, wrapped up in a page-turner. 5/5”—The Telegraph (UK)
“Destined to become one of the great novels of our time . . . Surprising, engrossing and beautifully executed novel confirms Diaz as a virtuoso of storytelling . . . Diaz has accomplished that rare thing—a literary page-turner that offers compulsive reading with exquisite prose. Having already been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut, Trust firmly establishes Diaz as one of the great American authors working today.”—The Irish Times
“Engrossing . . . Diaz's ingenious new fiction, told in four overlapping parts, challenges conventional story lines of [a] favorite American theme: capitalism and the accumulation of vast wealth.With great skill and using multiple voices, Diaz employs his inventive structure to offer intriguing insights into the hidden roles played by subservient women — both entitled and disenfranchised.”—Star Tribune
“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
“Like any good experimental novel, Trust . . . shatters to fragments. And, as with any good detective novel, the reader must parse contradictory accounts, dodge red herrings, and hunt for clues to find the answers. For all his deep fascination with political economy, Diaz has written a well-paced, suspenseful novel . . . This intricate novel possesses a rare, fractal beauty: patterns first noticeable in the tiny twigs of its sentences recur in the branches of its sections and yet again in the shape of the whole.”—Harvard Review
“Diaz has organized his new nesting-doll novel so ingeniously that the tricks merely thrum in the background as the intricate plot unfolds . . . The result shouldn’t be missed.”—Los Angeles Times
“Diaz pulls a dazzling feat, giving us [four] versions of the story, based on entirely different perspectives. This is the ultimate trickster novel, a daring pursuit that works brilliantly here, each version of the story causing us to rethink everything that came before. The poignancy of the short fourth section took my breath away.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“A virtuoso performance by an emerging talent whose first novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize . . . A spellbinding tale that illuminates the impact of money on all of our lives . . . At a moment when our social compact is on the ropes, Trust is that rare thing: a beautifully crafted novel that dares to confront some of our deepest socioeconomic schisms.”—Oprah Daily
“Magnificent . . . Riveting . . . It constantly keeps you on your toes . . . You can’t put it down . . . Nothing is at it appears . . . It all comes together in the end in just a magnificent way.”—Bill Goldstein, NBC
“Witty and elegant . . ., Trust is a multi-faceted saga of class, wealth and mythmaking that should resonate with today’s capitalism-questioning readers. Buy stock in Diaz now.—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“The ultimate effect of Diaz’s novel is one that requires and rewards a reader’s trust through a masterfully executed exploration of storytelling itself . . . [The] provocative inversion of perceived authority carries readers of Trust to a phenomenally satisfying final note.”—Ploughshares
“Just when you think you’ve got this puzzle of a novel figured out, it rearranges itself, which only adds to its mysterious, canny charm.”—Wall Street Journal (The 14 Best Beach Reads of 2023)
“Literary magic . . . A literary funhouse full of trapdoors and trick mirrors . . . A supreme mastery of narrative styles.”—Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)
“Diaz is a courageous writer . . . How long has it been since we read a novel that, in its title, tells the reader ‘believe me, I’m making up a story’? . . . A tasteful ventriloquist, Diaz is in full control of his fictional plots. And [as his] characters read too many detective stories, [he] builds one before our very eyes.”—Mariarosa Mancuso, La Repubblica (Italy)
“I have to say that I am surprised that it is a man who has written one of the best and most revealing books I've ever read about women.”—Gabriella Håkansson, Sydsvenskan (Sweden)
“Hernan Diaz is a formidable writer, both when it comes to the economic-historical and the literary-stylistic. The overall and the embedded stories are shaped with a beguiling expert hand.”—Jyllands-Posten (Denmark)
“Trust is one of the most universally anticipated books of the summer and it delivers . . . The Pulitzer Prize-finalist explores wealth, power, the dynamics of American capitalism, and the nature of truth in an inventive way that stacks up to one engaging, beautiful whole.”—The Daily Beast (The Best Summer Reads of 2022)
“Diaz perfects different voices with remarkable agility. The echoes between the tales are deliberate, alerting us to the twisting of truths and the distortions of what was fact and fiction. What you deem to be the truth depends on who you trust. 10/10”—The Independent (UK)
“Superbly narrated and highly engrossing . . . The four episodes of Trust are downright superbly orchestrated by Hernan Diaz. All the while he maintains the balance between classical historical realism and postmodernist stylistic experimentation . . . Trust is a superb novel that floats in spaces between the intellectual and the emotional, and which lifts the reader up.”—Michael Bach Henriksen, Kristeligt Dagblat (Denmark)
“Diaz is a virtuoso.”—Matteo Persivale, La Lettura, Corriere della Sera (Italy)
“Hernan Diaz’s fabulously refined novel revolves around money and history, facts and fictions as well as the oppressed power of women.”—Frankfurter Rundschau
“A novel within a memoir within a mystery, Trust is a multi-layered story about the quiet unraveling of a New York stock market shark. Within a critique on the supposed ‘great men’ who dominate the business world, Diaz ruminates on the gradations of perception, memory, and truth.”—Sarah McNally, The Center Magazine (“10 Books Every New Yorker Should Read”)
“There is not a dull moment in this novel . . . Gripping . . . Diaz has an uncanny grasp of slots of time and history, polishing both for our lazy and admiring consumption. He does this by using a lens to focus on the flightiest detail before swerving his godlike gaze to the general world, the general mess and mass. Diaz’s inquiry has severe standards, moral and practical . . . Fitzgerald, in his overrated Gatsby, wrote that the ‘very rich are different.’ A century later, Hernan Diaz’s audit reveals further details of how and why.”—The Monthly (Australia)
“Letting emotional content and metastructure harmonize with each other is an enormous feat : as if the tightrope walker still balanced a water glass on his nose. But in the end, Diaz makes it safely from point A to point B without crashing and almost without stumbling. And that's worth more than all Wall Street money.”—Deutschlandfunk Kultur
“Exhilarating . . . While Diaz's book is an ambitious formal experiment and an engrossing study in unreliable narration, it also manages to be an ideological tour de force. As in a traditional mystery, the truth isn't divulged until book's end, but in the meantime, Trust's other concerns . . . are consuming.”—Shelf Awareness
“Pulitzer finalist Diaz ups his game with this deeply ambitious and satisfying experiment. . . For readers with time on their hands to knock this down in one steady gulp—preferably while unplugged on vacation—this offers the greatest of riches.”—Publishers Weekly, “Best Books: Summer Reads 2022”
“Hernan Diaz’s Trust is a critique of American capitalism, but it’s also a brilliant exploration of how we construct fiction.”—Elliott Holt, Kenyon Review (2022 Holiday Reading Recommendations)
“Great . . . Rooted partly in Henry James, partly in Succession.”—Chicago Tribune
“Hernan Diaz's Booker- longlisted Trust is a tricksy, tantalising delight . . . It's enthralling—delicate, detailed and deliciously stealthy.”—Daily Mail (UK)
“With impressive talent, [Diaz] constructs a literary hall of mirrors about finance, emotions, power and manipulation.”—Berlingske (Denmark)
“The elegance, the sophistication, the sheer intelligence of Diaz’s way to write about money and about human psychology make you want to clap your hands with joy … a highly relevant novel, as satisfying for its aesthetics as it is for its politics”—Denis Scheck, WDR1 (Germany)
“A uniquely layered novel that proves every story has another side . . . and another . . . and another . . . Each page peels back another mystery, making for an utterly riveting read.”—BuzzFeed
“Jaw-dropping . . . With dignified and razor-sharp prose . . ., Trust is a deliciously cerebral novel with themes of power and legacy quietly pulsing in the background as it shines a light into the dark corners of high finance . . . [I]t delivers a majorly impressive return on investment.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Diaz is brilliant on the pernicious, intoxicating thrill of currency, of trading, of futures and derivatives and also on the misery they inevitably cause . . . It’s difficult not to be taken in by this enigmatic, memorable novel.”—The Spectator (UK)
“An exquisite novel that deserves its Booker longlisting. Diaz . . . writes exquisitely about the luminous unhappiness that money and power ultimately bring, and how they can diminish lives . . . A clever, literary kaleidoscope that constantly challenges the realities it puts forward, requiring you to step back, and look again. You may have to read it more than once.”—i newspaper (UK)
“[A] narrative matryoshka doll . . . [A] clever puzzle of a new novel . . . Mr. Diaz shifts elegantly between styles.”—The Economist
“A great novel . . . Diaz revisits in a bold novel an emblematic period in the history of the United States and delivers an exciting reflection on the mystification and power of fiction. . . . Trust is a great book of this new literary year.”—franceinfo
“This novel has it all. Trust takes precise aim at the cross section of psychology and finance. The result is dazzling.”—NRK (Norway)
“Diaz constructs a fascinating narrative puzzle, a literary skyscraper towering with ideas, stylistic richness, and surprising dramatic twists.”—La Vanguardia (Spain)
“Trust, the second novel by celebrated Hernan Diaz, is a dazzling example of a writer who is brilliantly in control of a complicated narrative . . . Undeniably a marvel in concept, skill and originality.”—Queensland Reviewers Collective (Australia)
“Extremely hard to put down. Hernan Diaz draws a brilliant portrait of a marriage, seen from four different angles . . . It’s rare to come across novels with such a playful attitude to form that maintain this level of accessibility.”—DN (Norway)
“Diaz’s careful exploration of 20th century American history through fiction shows us the power that stories have to tell facts.”—The Hindustani Times
“The gifted Diaz is in complete control of every angle and and all his formal tools . . . It all happens in a cleverly constructed novel that feels full of life, while stretching the novel's traditional frame to the maximum with its changing points of view and styles.”—Politiken (Denmark)
“A magnificently constructed literary puzzle about power and American wealth.”—Town & Country
“Money is the great protagonists of the American imagination: in his latest novel Hernan Diaz investigates neuroses and ambitions of the super rich and the dark power of money. Which is kind of like sex: something that attracts, but which we do not like to talk about.”—Vanity Fair (Italy)
“The expectations have been high . . . Hernan Diaz meets them.”—Dagsavisen (Norway)
“Trust is a very fluid reading in which the puzzle slowly comes together with pleasure in front of our eyes and in which the financial history of a country and the history of a couple receive Rashomon treatment to prove that everything is deceptive.”—Marco Rossari, D di Repubblica (Italy)
“A dazzling story about wealth, capitalism and who exactly gets to tell the story.”—The Bookseller (UK); Editor’s Choice.
“If postmodern literature has a reputation for disappearing up itself, metafictional technique is brilliantly deployed in Hernan Diaz’s Trust. Truth lies buried in a trail of money in this puzzle-like tale.”—The Sydney Morning Herald
“[A] masterpiece of a book-within-a-book.”—Good Housekeeping
“An engrossing tale, told multiple times through multiple voices . . . What you deem to be the truth depends on whom you trust.”—The Herald (Scotland)
“‘A mind-blowing novel . . . Brilliantly structured . . . [Diaz’s] book can definitely be ranked among the best things literature has to offer.’”—NRC (Netherlands)
“This novel, very daring in its conception, questions the power of money and the capitalist machine, and self-mystification, that which men of power seek to impose, but also more broadly that which contributed to building the ‘American dream’. Great art.”—France info (Best books of 2023)
“A masterpiece . . . The reader can never be certain which one of the narrators is the most reliable. The only certainty is Diaz's diabolical ability to see the hard core of the capital.”—Kauppalehti Optio (Finland)
“This impressive book is a triumph of storytelling”—Napa Valley Register
“Hernan Diaz is a masterful writer . . . [He] erects a mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that contains an entirety of madness and money, and the power and legacy of both. Inside, the remarkable chronicle of survival and resurrection, of fiction and reality. It is unforgettable.”—Avenue
“Dazzling.”—Business Live (South Africa)
“Like a well-crafted symphony, the various movements work together to form a whole greater than the sum of their individual parts.”—Daily Kos
“As brilliant as enigmatic . . . This novel is a magnificent challenge, a rejection of all certainties, a tribute to the power of the word.”—Kleine Zeitung (Austria)
“Masterful . . . If all the the critical and literary complexity were not enough, Diaz also deals with gender inequality. Five stars.”—Folha de São Paulo (Brazil)
“Simply a thrilling journey of discovery.”—VG (Norway)
“An impressively ambitious novel in which Diaz explores the many facets of power and manipulation . . . Penned in [an] exquisite prose that changes tone and register in every part, modulating smoothly with every change of perspective, but always accurate and refined . . . a challenging and intriguing book that begs to be re-read.”—De Tijd (Belgium)
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