Trust, the second novel by Hernan Diaz, Argentinian-American writer and academic, pleased critics, readers, prize committees including the Pulitzer’s, and a former president (the one who tells us about his favorite new books). Diaz’s first novel, In the Distance, originally published by the small, independent Coffee House Press, won a Whiting Award, and, on the back of Diaz’s new celebrity, has been done up by Riverhead, first in a new paperback in March of this year, and now in a special edition hardcover.
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