Trust by Hernan Diaz review – playful portrait of a Gatsby-like tycoon | Fiction
How is reality funded?” asks the wealthy tycoon at the centre of Hernan Diaz’s Booker-longlisted second novel. His answer is “fiction” – specifically, the “fiction of money”. The value of any commodity comes from us buying into its wider narrative. Unless we trust that a banknote “represents concrete goods”, it is just a piece of printed paper, as open to distortion as a novel, or a memoir, or a diary.Trust incorporates all three of these literary forms. As with David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas or Richard Powers’s The…