Who and what we can trust within the complex morality structures of a capitalist world is examined on both a micro and a macro level to great effect. The result is a novel that spans the entirety of the 20th century, provoking the reader to confront the deceptions in society that sustain us. Each evolution is a revelation that deepens the reading experience without any inertia creeping in. The competing narratives across the four streams interrogate fact vs fiction, as the narrator desperately tries to extract the truth from the murky manipulations of the affluent elite. One account is told in the form of a novel within the novel, Bonds, that in this fictional scenario has become a publishing sensation in its own right. The four overlapping sections of Trust offer different versions of the life of 1920s New York financier and Wall Street legend, Benjamin Rask. A literary conundrum, composed of four books in one, this surprising, engrossing and beautifully executed novel confirms Diaz’s status as a virtuoso of storytelling. Destined to become one of the great novels of our time, this ingenious work more than lives up to the hype. Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, Trust by US novelist Hernan Diaz is published on this side of the pond in the wake of profusive critical acclaim.
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