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2023 selection · Literary fiction

Trust

by Hernan Diaz

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction · Winner

Four nested documents offer incompatible accounts of a Wall Street fortune and its marriage. As genre and authorship shift, the silenced work of a financier’s wife comes into focus.

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Diaz makes narrative control inseparable from financial power.

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You like puzzle novels with unreliable documents and economic history.

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