Trust, Domenico Starnone
Trust, Domenico Starnone
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Trust

Author: Domenico Starnone

Narrator: Fabio Tassone, Jeanne Sakata

Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/09/2021

Synopsis

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2021 Following the international success of Ties and the National Book Award-shortlisted Trick, Domenico Starnone gives readers another searing portrait of human relationships and human folly. Pietro and Teresa’s love affair is tempestuous and passionate. After yet another terrible argument, she gets an idea: they should tell each other something they’ve never told another person, something they’re too ashamed to tell anyone. They will hear the other’s confessions without judgment and with love in their hearts. In this way, Teresa thinks, they will remain united forever, more intimately connected than ever. A few days after sharing their shameful secrets, they break up. Not long after, Pietro meets Nadia, falls in love, and proposes. But the shadow of the secret he confessed to Teresa haunts him, and Teresa herself periodically reappears, standing at the crossroads, it seems, of every major moment in his life. Or is it he who seeks her out? Starnone is a master storyteller and a novelist of the highest order. His gaze is trained unwaveringly on the fault lines in our public personas and the complexities of our private selves. Trust asks how much we are willing to bend to show the world our best side, knowing full well that when we are at our most vulnerable we are also at our most dangerous.

About Domenico Starnone

Domenico Starnone was born in Naples and lives in Rome. He is the author of thirteen works of fiction, including First Execution, Via Gemito, winner of Italy's most prestigious literary prize, the Strega, and Ties, a New York Times Editors pick.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on May 10, 2023

Trust holds a lot of promise, but it just didn't work for me. The novel consists of four parts - a novel-within-a-novel, sketches of an autobiography, a memoir, and a journal. Each successive entry peels back a layer of the story to ultimately reveal the truth behind the original novel. It sounds gr......more

Goodreads review by Roxane on October 12, 2021

Sublime, richly layered novel. A story within a story within a story. Elegantly written. Feels like an homage to Edith Wharton. Truly though, this is just sublime.......more

Goodreads review by Lark on June 03, 2022

On the upside, I learned the word "dipsomania." I went into the novel with huge stores of leftover goodwill from reading In the Distance. I also loved the idea of reading multiple rashomon-like reveals and revelations, and I read along in the beginning with great anticipation, and tried to retain my......more

Goodreads review by Meike on May 08, 2023

Joint Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2023 with the equally simplistic Demon Copperhead Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 Listen, God knows I was all here for a four-part experimental novel about American finance and wealth, the cover showing 30 Rock under a snow globe/glass dome of a stock ticker wi......more

Goodreads review by Jill on March 11, 2022

This brilliant metafiction book is about a lot of things, but among the most prominent is the bending and aligning of reality according to one’s mistakes so it ceases to be a mistake. What are the fictions that compose our identity? Or do our lives eventually become the written and verbal fictions t......more

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