One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction -- Longlisted for the Booker Prize
The Sunday Times Bestseller -- One of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of the Year
'Massively enjoyable' - The Sunday Times
'Genius' - The Observer
'Enthralling' - Daily Mail
Can one person change the course of history?
A Wall Street tycoon takes a young woman as his wife. Together, they rise to the top in an age of excess and speculation. Now a novelist is threatening to reveal the secrets behind their marriage. Who will have the final word in their story of greed, love and betrayal?
Composed of four competing versions of this deceptive tale, Trust by Hernan Diaz brings us on a quest for truth while confronting the lies that often live buried in the human heart.
**Soon to be an HBO Limited Series starring Kate Winslet**
'I've never read anything quite like this' - Natalie Portman
'One of the great puzzle-box novels . . . a page-turner' - The Telegraph
'Metafiction at its best, unpredictable, clever and massively enjoyable' - The Sunday 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 boundless 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 centre 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 relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
