Trust: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

Trust by Hernan Diaz is an ambitious novel about power, wealth and truth, shaped through four distinct voices that connect and collide. Set in turbulent 1920s New York, it centres on a Wall Street tycoon and the young woman he marries, tracing their ascent during an era marked by excess and speculation.

As their standing grows, a novelist threatens to bring hidden aspects of their marriage into the open. At the same time, the tycoon’s own version of events begins to slip from his control. Built from four competing accounts of the same story, the narrative becomes a search for what is real, while acknowledging the lies that can remain buried in the human heart.

Key details

• Author: Hernan Diaz
• Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
• Set in 1920s New York
• Told through four interlocking voices

Synopsis

A Wall Street tycoon marries a young woman and, together, they rise within a world defined by excess and speculation. When a novelist threatens to expose what lies behind their marriage, the tycoon’s carefully maintained narrative begins to unravel.

Told as four competing versions of events, the novel examines power, wealth and truth, and follows a quest to understand what is real amid stories shaped by greed, love and betrayal.