• Pulitzer Prize for Literature (2023), Kirkus Prize (2022), longlisted for the Booker Prize (2022).
• One of the ten best books of 2022 according to The New York Times and one of Barack Obama's favorite books.
• A multifaceted story about power, love, and the essence of truth. Premium intellectual prose.
• HBO is developing a film adaptation starring Kate Winslet.
• A captivating novel by Hernan Diaz about America in the 1920s, the elite of New York during the Great Depression.

Even the roar and rumble of the Roaring Twenties could not drown out their names. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon, she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together they rose to the top of a world full of the illusion of limitless wealth. But what price did they pay for such a vast fortune? We learn this from several sources. From a book about the millionaire’s life. From his own memoirs. From the typist who writes them down and notices that history and reality are beginning to diverge. And from his wife’s diaries. Whose voice is more honest, and who is the most unreliable narrator? How do ideas about reality coexist with reality itself? Trust is both a gripping story and a brilliant literary puzzle.

Quotes:

“Every last one of our actions is governed by the laws of economics. As soon as we wake up in the morning, we exchange rest for benefit. When we go to bed at night, we give up potentially useful hours in order to recuperate. And throughout the day, we do business all the time. Every time we look for a way to minimize our costs and increase our profits, we make a deal, even if it is with ourselves. This everyday economics is so ingrained in our everyday life that we hardly notice it. But the truth is, our whole existence revolves around self-interest.'

'Most of us prefer to regard our victories as personal achievements and our defeats as unfortunate coincidences. We like to see ourselves as winners, but not losers—better to be victims of an evil fate.'

'Intimacy can be a heavy burden for those who experience it for the first time after a long life of proud solitude and suddenly realize that their world has been incomplete until now. The discovery of bliss is inseparable from the fear of losing it. These two doubt their right to make someone else responsible for their happiness; they worry that their beloved is bored by their awe; they fear that longing will gradually distort their features. Thus, under the influence of all these worries and fears, they withdraw into themselves, and the newfound joy of communication turns into a deeper form of loneliness, when they had already decided that they had left it in the past.'

'He was grateful to America, but he was suspicious of the American idea of ​​freedom, which he saw as nothing more than a synonym for conformity or, worse, a simple opportunity to choose between different brands of the same product.'