Request now: /Ld5PKdhx37īen Okri has spent years rewriting Starbook, originally published in 2007, because he felt the slavery narrative which underpins the vibrant love story was missed or misinterpreted as allegorical. #TheLastGiftOfTheMasterArtists by is available to request on is about the moment before the world changed and innocence was lost. The Last Gift Of The Master Artists by Ben Okri is published in hardback by Apollo. What you deem to be the truth depends on who you trust.Ģ. The echoes between the tales are deliberate, alerting us to the twisting of truths and the distortions of what was fact and fiction. But how far from the truth was this fiction? Taking up other versions of the tale, Diaz perfects different voices with remarkable agility. First we read Harold Vanner’s novel Bonds, published in 1938 as a thinly veiled novelisation of a man at the centre of the Wall Street Crash. Who do we trust to tell us the truth? Diaz investigates this question with an engrossing tale, told multiple times through multiple voices. The idea of alternative facts may be relatively new, but alternative narratives, opinions and perspectives are as old as time. Hernan Diaz’s second novel isn’t one book, or two, but four in one, and is an intricate investigation on the meaning of truth.

Out on 04 Aug still reeling from the news that KATE WINSLET (!) will be producing & starring in the HBO series.ĭM if you want one!💰 /uhcT6CCr2p Available August 4thįinished copies of TRUST by Hernan Diaz are here. Trust by Hernan Diaz is published in hardback by Picador. Hernan Diaz’s lastest book has been longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize… Fictionġ.

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