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.

Informationen zum Autor Hernan Diaz is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Trust , which won the Pulitzer Prize and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. It was named one of The New York Times 's 100 Best Books of the Century. His previous novel, In the Distance , was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kirkus Award, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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....

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Hernan Diaz is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Trust, which won the Pulitzer Prize and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. It was named one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the Century. His previous novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kirkus Award, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages.

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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.

Zusammenfassung
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.