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hernan diaz is the only writer who could make me care about a finance bro
This novel exposes the wild power that narrative holds ... over the economy, over the development of culture, historiography, social disparity, lineage and legacy, over a person's life, over truth itself, and over the reader. TRUST is a powerful, important, sinister story—taking the form of a nesting doll, around which the modern economy is still fashioning larger and larger macho casings. Diaz tells this story with unnerving command.
A wonderful story in an innovative format. I loved the four different tellings of the same story and I hope to see other authors take a similar approach. I do think that a more detailed summary description could have saved me from some of my confusion when the story changed from Bonds to Andrew’s version.
Diaz' second novel is a deliciously meta-meta-meta-novel about a Wall Street tycoon and the secret at the heart of his life. Told through different narratives that peel away from each other like onion skins, Diaz has a lot of fun here with the form, while also posing moral questions about the stock market, wealth and personal responsibility. A highly intelligent and pleasurable treat of a novel that is one of my early favourites for the next year.
Trust is a wonderfully written historical fiction book that is unlike any other I have read. The format is very ingenious and the storyline is very captivating! The mystery is telling. The book itself is so interesting - it really makes you think! A great book for a book club cause you will really want to discuss with others who have read the book after you are finished. Highly recommend!
I loved that I immediately became immersed in the story and fascinated by the mystery. An innovative format that added to my experience. Well researched and provocative. A good read.
My jaw was left on the floor.
Sublime, richly layered novel. A story within a story within a story. Elegantly written. Feels like an homage to Edith Wharton. Truly though, this is just sublime.
This brilliant metafiction book is about a lot of things, but among the most prominent is the bending and aligning of reality according to one’s mistakes so it ceases to be a mistake. What are the fictions that compose our identity? Or do our lives eventually become the written and verbal fictions that others craft?Since I am an early reader, I had the joy of discovering the alchemy created by Hernan Diaz without any advance knowledge or perceptions. In this review, I’m going to try hard to ensu...
New release for tomorrow, May 3rd, in the USA smart twist on story and narrative, conceptually similar to Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi, but focused on a very different slice of society - wealthy NYC. Fun and well-written, but with cold characters. I could’ve used a bit more emotion to engage me. But the author’s playful use of manipulation makes this reading experience a work of art.Thank you to Riverhead Books and The Strand for the advanced copy.
Elegant and deeply researched; historical fiction I kept wanting to confirm wasn't actually based on true events for how sharply the characters/story is drawn.It's a story within a story, a mystery embedded within power and influence, and how we shouldn't trust a book, or a person, by its cover. I was drawn into each reflection of a character's shadowy past, to only see how it reflected on their contemporary choices. It all deftly illustrates why Diaz's writing is so highly sought after. Galley
Do not let the first part of this deter you. It sets up the pleasures yet to come. A novel within a novel with a memoir added to that. Wealth, money markets, relationships and the twisting of reality propels the narrative. Simply stated, this is enigmatic and elegant.
Stocks, shares and all that garbage are just claims to a future value. So if money is fiction, finance capital is the fiction of a fiction. That's what all those criminals trade in: fictions... Money is at the core of it all. An illusion we've all agreed to support. Unanimously. This is such a smart book, and smart in all kinds of ways. The central trope draws parallels between capitalism, especially financial instruments, and fiction - and those images and ideas proliferate throughou
I love narratives about narratives, stories within stories, and TRUST is an excellent example of the genre that is also one of the most straightforward. I know some readers dislike a feeling of manipulation or bait and switch when they find one narrative to contradict the other, but while those things happen in this book, the book also isn't interested in pulling the rug. It is quite clear about what each section is, and it illuminates as you go.I do want to provide one important note: it was a
authority and money surround themselves with silence, and one can measure the reach of someone's influence by the thickness of the hush enveloping them. an impressive, often mesmerizing feat of narration and storytelling, hernan diaz's trust (following his pulitzer finalist debut, in the distance) is a tale of wealth, power, veracity, influence, privilege, and legacy. the polyphonic story of a prominent financier, his wife, and the conflicting portrayals of their lives and fortunes, trust off
A modern classic in the making, Trust is one of the most fascinating novels I've read all year. Trust is a novel that is, at its most basic level, about capital. This is very much front and center in its first section, "Bonds," where one of our two main leads is the hugely successful and nigh indomitable Wall Street financier, Benjamin Rask. Here the novel plants the seeds of the ideas it's going to explore in its next three sections, namely the kind of mutability that is inherent to capital and...
