Author: Hernan Diaz
Publisher: Picador
Hardback
Published August 2022
Staff Pick! Ant says…
Hernan Diaz is officially two for two. His first book IN THE DISTANCE from Daunt Books Publishing was a revelation. TRUST sees Diaz continuing his written exploration of the foundations of America with similar aplomb and originality… Diaz leads the reader through a sequence of mirages made up of various versions of the life of Andrew Bevel, a New York business tycoon who rises to glory in the wake of the 1929 crash. The novel’s genius lies in its gradual revealing of Bevel’s wife Mildred who has been forced into the shadows of her husband’s success. By bringing Mildred to the fore, Diaz forces the reader to reassess the accounts of Bevel’s life that they’ve been told, and fallen for, throughout the book.