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About Hernan Diaz
Hernan Diaz is the author of two novels translated into more than twenty languages. His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has also written a book of essays, and his work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Playboy, The Yale Review, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. His second novel, Trust, will be released in May 2022.
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"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression."—Vanity Fair
“A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed.” —Esquire
"Captivating."—NPR
"Exhilarating.” —New York Times
An unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception
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 endless 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.
Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year
Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, from whom he was separated in the crowds and chaos during their journey across the sea. Moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West, he is driven back again and again, meeting naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen—and his exploits turn him into a legend.
Just as its hero pushes against the tide, this widely acclaimed novel defies genre conventions—and “upends the romance and mythology of America’s Western experience and rugged individualism” (Star Tribune).
“Suspenseful…a memorable immigration narrative, and a canny reinvention of the old-school western.”—Publishers Weekly
“Exquisite: assured, moving, and masterful, as profound and precise an evocation of loneliness as any book I’ve ever read.” —Lauren Groff, National Book Award-nominated author of Florida and Fates and Furies
Håkan Söderström, conocido como "el Halcón", un joven inmigrante sueco que llega a California en plena Fiebre del Oro, emprende una peregrinación imposible en dirección a Nueva York, sin hablar el idioma, en busca de su hermano Linus, a quien perdió cuando embarcaron en Europa.
En su extraño viaje, Håkan se topará con un buscador de oro irlandés demente y con una mujer sin dientes que lo viste con un abrigo de terciopelo y zapatos con hebilla. Conocerá a un naturalista visionario y se hará con un caballo llamado Pingo. Será perseguido por un sheriff sádico y por un par de soldados depredadores de la guerra civil. Atrapará animales y buscará comida en el desierto, y finalmente se convertirá en un proscrito. Acabará retirándose a las montañas para subsistir durante años como trampero, en medio de la naturaleza indómita, sin ver a nadie ni hablar, en una suerte de destrucción planeada que es, al mismo tiempo, un renacimiento.
Pero su mito crecerá y sus supuestas hazañas lo convertirán en una leyenda.
Una novela llamada a reinventar un género. Un western atmosférico en el que cantinas, vagones mineros, indios y buscadores de oro conviven en místicos espacios silenciosos que nos traen a la memoria a Cormac McCarthy y las aventuras del trampero Jeremiah Johnson.
Sull’Impeccable la maggior parte degli uomini è composta da cercatori che si aggirano in quella terra vergine con la speranza di imbattersi in una vena miracolosa. Tra loro, molti hanno sentito parlare di un colosso dai capelli canuti chiamato il Falco. Un uomo dalle imprese mirabolanti: si dice che abbia ammazzato a bastonate una confraternita, ucciso a mani nude un orso nero o un puma, capeggiato tutte le Nazioni d’America, landa selvaggia e inospitale.
Con le sue pelli di linci e coyote, castori e orsi e altre belve sconosciute, il gigante sale a bordo dell’Impeccable e dopo un po’ raggiunge i cercatori riuniti a poppa attorno a un fuoco. Intimoriti dalla sua imponente presenza, in preda a un miscuglio di rispetto e terrore, attorno a quel fuoco gli uomini ascolteranno dalla sua voce la storia di Håkan Söderström, figlio di contadini in miseria di Tystnaden, in Svezia, cresciuto tra i boschi di conifere insieme al fratello Linus, partito con lui alla volta dell’America in cerca di avventura e fortuna, separato dal fratello a Portsmouth, sbarcato per errore in California anziché a New York. La storia dell’odissea di un ragazzo che, per ricongiungersi al fratello, attraversa deserti aridi e impietosi, conosce la solitudine e la privazione nel cuore selvaggio dell’America, si imbatte in individui di tutte le risme e sfugge diverse volte alla morte. La storia di Håkan chiamato The Hawk, il Falco, il gigante divenuto leggenda.
Romanzo finalista al Premio Pulitzer e al pen/Faulkner Award, Il Falco ha rivelato sulla scena internazionale il talento di Hernan Diaz, uno scrittore capace di restituire al western la potenza della letteratura.