There are shades of JG Ballard in this tale of survival in a decaying metropolis, but big ideas and lengthy exposition crowd out the human drama Hernan Diaz’s last novel, the formally inventive Trust , narrated the biography of a successful financier from four different viewpoints to investigate ...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/14/ply-by-hernan-diaz-review-pulitzer-winners-dry-vision-of-far-future-america)