Rating: 3 out of 5. A good book with a poor ending.
“There is no escaping this most basic fact of accounting. A certain amount of time is allotted to each of us. How much, only God knows. We cannot invest it. We cannot hope for a return of any kind. All we can do is spend it, second by second, decade by decade, until it runs out.”
In the shadowed streets of New York’s roaring twenties, Hernan Diaz weaves an intriguing tale centered around a finance mogul and his enigmatic wife. Trust is about who writes the history of wealth and about money’s ability “to bend and align reality” to certain purposes. Is money a fiction?
Actually, Diaz weaves together four tales here. Trust is a novel told in parts. The overarching narrative centers around the character of Andrew Bevel, a financier who successfully shorted the 1929 stock market crash which vastly increased the public’s suspicion and enmity towards him.
The first part of Trust is presented as a novella fictionalizing Bevel’s life and authored…
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