A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK' CHOICE
A sharp, breath-taking exploration of love and relationships.
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. In this way, Teresa thinks, they will remain intimately connected forever.
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 of every major moment in his life. Or is it he who seeks her out?
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.
"Trust unfolds with all the tension of a thriller despite much of the action taking place in the mind of the protagonist."
- Big Issue NorthDomenico Starnone was born in Naples and lives in Rome. A journalist, screenwriter, he’s the author of several novels as well as works of non-fiction. His novels include First Execution (Europa, 2009); Via Gemito, winner of Italy’s most prestigious literary prize, the Strega; Ties (Europa, 2017), selected as a “book of the year” by the New York Times, Kirkus Review, and the Sunday Times; and Trick.
Jhumpa Lahiri is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. Born in London and raised in Rhode Island, she currently lives in Rome. Her first book written in Italian, In Other Words, was recently published by Bloomsbury. She is the translator of both Ties and Trick, for which he won the Society of Authors' John Florio Translation Prize.
A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK' CHOICE
A sharp, breath-taking exploration of love and relationships.
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. In this way, Teresa thinks, they will remain intimately connected forever.
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 of every major moment in his life. Or is it he who seeks her out?
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.
"Trust unfolds with all the tension of a thriller despite much of the action taking place in the mind of the protagonist."
- Big Issue NorthDomenico Starnone was born in Naples and lives in Rome. A journalist, screenwriter, he’s the author of several novels as well as works of non-fiction. His novels include First Execution (Europa, 2009); Via Gemito, winner of Italy’s most prestigious literary prize, the Strega; Ties (Europa, 2017), selected as a “book of the year” by the New York Times, Kirkus Review, and the Sunday Times; and Trick.
Jhumpa Lahiri is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. Born in London and raised in Rhode Island, she currently lives in Rome. Her first book written in Italian, In Other Words, was recently published by Bloomsbury. She is the translator of both Ties and Trick, for which he won the Society of Authors' John Florio Translation Prize.
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