In the distance hernan diaz review6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Born in Argentina, raised in Sweden, and now living in Brooklyn, Diaz is erudite and energetic both on the screen-our conversation began as a Zoom call when Diaz was on a fellowship in Italy-and on the page, in the email back-and-forth that followed. ![]() The novel, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, follows a Swedish immigrant during the California Gold Rush. An illusion we’ve all agreed to support.”ĭiaz’s first novel, In the Distance, published in 2017, also reimagines America’s particular illusions. As one character declares halfway through, “Money is at the core of it all. The novel features a New York financier and his wife, moving between genres (a novel, a memoir, a diary) and time periods (the Gilded Age, the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, the eighties) while exploring the fabular nature of capitalism. Taking the mechanics of capital as its inspiration, Trust seeks to fill this gap. Money? Not so much,” Hernan Diaz observed during a conversation in early spring about the impetus behind his latest novel, Trust. Money talks-so goes the truism-but rarely is it the subject of fiction. ![]()
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