Digital Book Club - Trust by Hernan Diaz

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Monday 10 February 19:30

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Overview

Grab a coffee/ tea/ glass of wine and settle down with your laptop or phone for the meeting! We will often have a short book related quiz so have a pencil and paper ready too.

This months book: Trust, Hernan Diaz was suggested by Sharon last year and we couldn't fit it in, so it's the first set book of 2025. It came up on Libby, the library digital app, as a book she may be interested in based on books she had borrowed. Apparently it was one of Barack Obama’s favourite books of the year and won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Trust Hernan Diaz

Goodreads review of Trust by Hernan Diaz: 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 center 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 personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.

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