Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Hernan Diaz

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE

“Buzzy and enthralling …A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery…Fun as hell to read.”—Oprah Daily

"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression."—Vanity Fair

“A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed.”—Esquire

"Exhilarating.”—New York 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 endless 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 center 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 personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.

©2022 Hernan Diaz (P)2022 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

“Intricate, cunning and consistently surprising…Much of the novel's pleasure derives from its unpredictabiility...Add Henry James to Wharton, and Thomas Mann too...Exhilarating and intelligent novel.”—New York Times

“Luminous… Masterful… The drama lies in trying to puzzle out where Diaz will take you next, what’s been hidden, and why.”—The New Yorker

“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… Important and timely. But 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

Wonderful

I’ve rarely had an author draw me so completely into a book. The readers were also perfect.

Beautiful

Lovely storytelling 🥲. For most of the book i went through it pretty confused. At one point i even thought this book is a terrible audiobook adaption 😂. But alas, things are never as they seem.
It is indeed how it must be.
This book is a book within a book, within a book.

Very clever, but not moving

Very clever, very lucid, very well written book, but left me indifferent emotionally. Admirative of the effort, but unmoved by the central story.

Closer and farther away

The voices draw themselves closer to the facts the farther they get from us. Fiction making sense of and existing in exchange with reality. Money

Intriguing

A little confusing at first, but love the plot line provided by different perspectives. Quite enchanted with the lovely language. Ending superb!

Wow, what a story.

If you are looking for something well written and gripping, this is the book for you. I wasn't sure what the story line was till I was half way into the book, but I became more and more amazed with it as the story went on. The narration was some of the best I have heard at audible. They placed themselves in the story and you believed that they were the character speaking directly to you. What a book, what a story, what a delight.

So glad I stuck with this book beyond Part I

I almost gave up. Only having seen that this this book was on a lot of top book lists, and not having read any reviews nor looked at the table of contents, I had no idea what to expect. The performance in Part I is perfect, knowing what I know now, but it definitely had me questioning collective literary judgment as a standalone performance of a modern novel, and had me second guessing all those top book lists. All of this to say that if you're considering hitting pause and never returning before you reach Part II, don't do it. Continue listening. It's worth it. You'll see.

Brilliant

Such a clever structure. Excellent weaving of those real events with fully developed characters. Bravo

Struggle

Struggled to finish the book. Too much time spent on secondary characters. Readers were best part. Good concept.

A very enjoyable read/listen

I really liked the unusual format, I was confused in the beginning a little bit, but it all came together in the end. A great read.