Trust, Hernan Diaz

In the triumphant Roaring Twenties, Benjamin Rask and his wife Helen dominate New York: he, a financial magnate who has amassed a fortune; she, the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. But as the decade draws to a close, and its excesses reveal a dark side, the Rasks begin to be surrounded by suspicion...

That is the starting point of *Obligations*, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read, and which tells a story that can, however, be told in a few other ways. In *Trust*, Hernan Diaz composes a masterful literary puzzle: a sum of voices, of confronted versions that complement, nuance, and contradict each other, and, in doing so, place the reader at the boundaries and limits between reality and fiction, between truth—perhaps impossible to find—and its manipulated version.

*Trust* explores the intricacies of American capitalism, the power of money, the passions and betrayals that drive personal relationships, and the ambition that corrupts everything.

Here is a novel that, while traversing the 20th century, hooks the reader on the first page and doesn't let go until the last, keeping them in constant suspense thanks to the fascinating literary game it proposes, full of surprises and unexpected twists.