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Diaz is a narrative genius whose work easily encompasses both a grand scope and the crisp and whiplike line. Trust builds its world and characters with subtle aplomb. What a radiant, profound and moving novel
Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies
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Intricate, cunning and consistently surprising . . . Diaz has the whole literary past at his fingertips . . . [an] exhilarating and intelligent novel
New York Times Book Review
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A sublime, richly layered novel. A story within a story within a story.
Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
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Trust glints with wonder and knowledge and mystery. Its plotlines are as etched and surreal as Art Deco geometry, while inside that architecture are people who feel appallingly real. This novel is very classical and very original: Balzac would be proud, but so would Borges.
Rachel Kushner, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room
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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 . . . Uniquely brilliant . . . exhilarating . . . a novel for the ages.
Vogue
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Immaculate. TRUST is a work of assured virtuosity, lightly-worn wisdom, and immense impact.
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies
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That rare jewel of a book – jaw-dropping storytelling against the backdrop of beautiful writing. Amidst all the noise in the world, whole days found me curled up on the couch, lost inside Diaz’s brilliance
Jacqueline Woodson, author of Red at the Bone
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A virtuoso performance . . . A spellbinding tale that illuminates the impact of money on all of our lives . . . Trust is that rare thing: a beautifully crafted novel that dares to confront some of our deepest socioeconomic schisms
Oprah Daily
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Like four exquisite dioramas, Diaz has set up all of these stories with great precision to present two fundamental questions: Why do we tell stories? And at what cost are those stories told? . . . A remarkably accessible treatise on the power of fiction. This unquestionably smart and sophisticated novel not only mirrors truth, but helps us to better understand the truth.
Boston Globe
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For all its elegant complexity and brilliant construction, Diaz’s novel is compulsively readable . . . A captivating tour de force that will astound readers with its formal invention and contemporary relevance.
Booklist, starred review
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In this glorious puzzle of a novel, perspectives keep shifting and the wealth of one early-twentieth-century family keeps changing its origin-story. What a joy this is to read, suspenseful at every turn, the work of a rare and impressive talent.
Joan Silber, author of Secrets of Happiness
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Diaz’s Trust exposes the wild power that narrative holds . . . over the economy, historiography, hierarchies, over a person’s life, truth, over the reader. A powerful, sinister tale in the form of a nesting doll, around which the modern economy fashions larger and larger macho casings
Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Wild Laughter
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Rich and prismatic . . . Excellent
Wall Street Journal
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An elegant, irresistible puzzle
Washington Post
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Riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed. The result is a mesmerizing metafictional alchemy of grand scope and even grander accomplishment
Esquire
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Trust speaks to matters of the most urgent significance to the present day . . . Cleverly constructed and rich in surprises, this splendid novel offers serious ideas and serious pleasures on every beautifully composed page
Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend
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Like a tower of gifts waiting to be unwrapped, Trust offers a multitude of rewards to be discovered and enjoyed . . . compelling . . . engrossing . . . a beautifully composed masterpiece
BookPage
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Trust proves that Diaz is a writer of singular talent. This book is a kaleidoscopic dazzler that works as both an engrossing literary mystery and a capitalistic takedown for the ages. Don’t miss it.
Chicago Review of Books
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Diaz cleverly weaves the disparate strands together while showing how our shifting perception of the story relates to wealth’s ability to “bend and align reality” to its own motives
New Yorker
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Gripping . . . Trust is about the bigger lies we tell about capitalism and individual ability, about our society and ourselves, and about the price we are willing to pay to maintain such illusions
Vulture
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The audacity and scope of Hernan Diaz’s extraordinary novel – a prism, a mystery, a revelation – are brilliantly matched by the quality of his prose.
Jean Strouse, author of Morgan: American Financier
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This masterpiece of a book-within-a-book explores how public perception and reality can get twisted
Good Housekeeping
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Wondrous . . . a kaleidoscope of capitalism run amok in the early 20th century, which also manages to deliver a biography of its irascible antihero and the many lives he disfigures during his rise to the cream of the city’s crop. Grounded in history and formally ambitious, this succeeds on all fronts
Publishers Weekly
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Diaz has organized his nesting-doll novel so ingeniously that the tricks merely thrum in the background as the intricate plot unfolds, following a tycoon couple forward to a novel about their “history,” then back and forth through diaries, recriminations and reversals. The result shouldn’t be missed.
LA Times
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Engrossing . . . Diaz’s ingenious new fiction, told in four overlapping parts, challenges conventional story lines of another favorite American theme: capitalism and the accumulation of vast wealth.
Star Tribune
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A dazzling novel about wealth, capitalism and who exactly gets to tell the story.
The Bookseller
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Ingenious, thrilling . . . the novel brilliantly weaves its multiple perspectives to create a symphony of emotional effects . . . A clever and affecting high-concept novel
Kirkus, starred review
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A uniquely layered novel . . . Each page peels back another mystery, making for an utterly riveting read
Buzzfeed
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A novel that unpeels like an onion, upending the story you first hear. The Pulitzer Prize-finalist explores wealth, power, the dynamics of American capitalism, and the nature of truth in an inventive way that stacks up to one engaging, beautiful whole
Daily Beast
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A brilliant, reclusive Wall Street tycoon seems to have had the perfect formula for creating almost unlimited wealth even during the Great Depression. What was his secret? Four talented narrators deliver this novel. A pastiche of genres, it is part mystery, part love story, and part examination of America’s wealthiest citizens told through passages from a sensationalist novel and a tight-lipped memoir, as well as a ghostwriter and maybe even a ghost. All four voice talents handle the sometimes-ponderous nineteenth-century writing style with clarity and ease.
AudioFile
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This is now part of my collection of books that I must read more than once. Hernan Diaz keeps the reader engaged by playfully architecting individual and collective narratives of power, love and the meaning of financial success.
Dan Houston, Chairman, president and CEO, Principal Financial Group, Bloomberg, Top Business Leaders Pick the Year's 58 Must-Reads
