Trust

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and longlisted for the Booker Prize, Trust is a novel of extraordinary ambition and scope, a sweeping puzzle of a novel about love, power, greed and a quest for the truth that begins in 1920s New York. For fans of Kate Atkinson and Donna Tartt, Trust is already an American classic. 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 tensio