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.
