Ply: A Novel | Hernan Diaz

Praise for Ply

“A page-turning, pleasurably disorienting, and deeply humane vision of a possible future.”

—Vogue

“Ply is majestic. A cracked mirror world, a lot like ours; peopled by survivors, a lot like us; sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss, love, trust, betrayal, art, science, society and control. Blurbing PLY is like trying to blurb a dream.” —David Mitchell

“Diaz is juggling an ambitious plot and thorny philosophical questions, yet the novel remains compulsively readable, carried along by intricate worldbuilding and strangely gorgeous evocations of ruin…. By the novel’s end you will believe, like our heroine, ‘that the cracks and fissures in every building and street [are] the sign of something wonderful hatching.’” —Oprah Daily

“To build a better world, how deeply must we get into the heads of the people around us? A brainy, challenging, and engrossing trek into a battered but unbeaten future.” —Kirkus Review (STARRED REVIEW)

“Diaz brilliantly envisions how love, trust, and loyalty can remain when freedom and justice have collapsed and makes every page exhilarating and meaningful.” —Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW)

Praise for Trust

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

“Intricate, cunning and consistently surprising . . . Diaz has the whole literary past at his fingertips.” —The New York Times (10 Best Books of the Year)

“An elegant, irresistible puzzle.” —The Washington Post (10 Best Books of the Year)

“With only his second novel, Diaz has become an ambitious and significant voice.” —The Guardian (Best Books of the Year)

“Wondrous . . . Diaz is brilliant at dissecting literary conventions and transforming them into something new.” —New York Review of Books

Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Trust, one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the Century. His previous novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kirkus Prize, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages.