'Trust,' Hernan Diaz's newest novel, unpacks the stories we tell ourselves about money, what they capture, and what they exclude.
waves his hand over a shelf of 19th-century land records. The author is in his element. This stately room filled with black ash woodwork has long been one of his favorite haunts, but today is his first time back since the Center for Brooklyn History closed to the public during the pandemic. COVID protocol is still in effect—no touching the books. He longingly gestures toward a stack of old maps.published by Riverhead Books this week.
“When we think of context, we think of space. So sure, I could go to Nevada or take the subway to Wall Street,” he says. “But there’s a second coordinate that’s usually left out, which is time. I am irretrievably removed from New York in the 1930s, and being here in the same place doesn’t bridge that enormous gap.” Diaz gets his bearings through research.
As a result, Diaz spent his early years in Sweden among his family’s circle of political exiles. When the situation in Argentina was safer, his family returned, but Diaz felt an international itch he needed to scratch. “At some point in my life I made the decision that I wanted to live in English,” he says. He has only ever written fiction in English, and he speaks the language with the exquisitely precise vocabulary of the multilingual.
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