Ply
a breathtaking, moving novel of America's future, from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Will be published approx. on 24. September 2026
464 pages
E-Book
978-1-0374-0719-2 (ISBN)
Description
'These are the last moments of the world as it's always been known. Reality now begins anew.'
The internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust turns to America's future with Ply, an extraordinary thriller and novel of ideas.
Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher. Stealing electricity from the grid to power the downtown music scene she adores is a risky occupation, and the city she moves through is dangerous. Someone is following her. Soon, the pincher is drawn into a paranoid maze where her closest friends and even her own identity are put into question - all while following a thread leading to an extraordinary scientific experiment that could change the fabric of reality itself.
Set in a future filled with both uncertainty and promise, Ply is a deeply moving novel that interrogates the role of technology in a changed society. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.
Praise for Hernan Diaz's Trust:
'Brilliant' - The Telegraph
'Exhilarating' - Vogue
'Genius' - The Observer
'Enthralling' - Daily Mail
'Hugely entertaining' - Financial Times
'Fascinating . . . unpredictable, clever and massively enjoyable' - Sunday Times
'What a radiant, profound and moving novel' - Lauren Groff, author of Matrix
'Glints with wonder and knowledge and mystery' - Rachel Kushner, author of Creation Lake
'[A] complex and thrilling book . . . I was obsessed and you might just be too' - Dua Lipa
The internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust turns to America's future with Ply, an extraordinary thriller and novel of ideas.
Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher. Stealing electricity from the grid to power the downtown music scene she adores is a risky occupation, and the city she moves through is dangerous. Someone is following her. Soon, the pincher is drawn into a paranoid maze where her closest friends and even her own identity are put into question - all while following a thread leading to an extraordinary scientific experiment that could change the fabric of reality itself.
Set in a future filled with both uncertainty and promise, Ply is a deeply moving novel that interrogates the role of technology in a changed society. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.
Praise for Hernan Diaz's Trust:
'Brilliant' - The Telegraph
'Exhilarating' - Vogue
'Genius' - The Observer
'Enthralling' - Daily Mail
'Hugely entertaining' - Financial Times
'Fascinating . . . unpredictable, clever and massively enjoyable' - Sunday Times
'What a radiant, profound and moving novel' - Lauren Groff, author of Matrix
'Glints with wonder and knowledge and mystery' - Rachel Kushner, author of Creation Lake
'[A] complex and thrilling book . . . I was obsessed and you might just be too' - Dua Lipa
Reviews / Votes
Diaz brilliantly envisions how love, trust, and loyalty can remain when freedom and justice have collapsed and makes every page exhilarating and meaningful -- <i>Library Journal</i> A writer of singular talent -- <i>Chicago Review of Books</i> on <i>Trust</i> Fascinating . . . Unpredictable, clever and massively enjoyable -- The <i>Sunday Times</i> on <i>Trust</i> Genius -- <i>The Observer</i> on <i>Trust</i> There is a dazzling intelligence behind this novel, which challenges us to rethink everything we know both about the institutions on which nations are built and the narratives by which stories are told. Sly, sophisticated, insistently questioning, Diaz writes with assurance, determined to rob us of every certainty -- The 2022 Booker Prize judges on <i>Trust</i> Glints with wonder and knowledge and mystery -- Rachel Kushner on <i>Trust</i> What a radiant, profound and moving novel -- Lauren Groff on <i>Trust</i> [A] complex and thrilling book . . . I was obsessed and you might just be too -- Dua Lipa on <i>Trust</i>More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
ISBN-13
978-1-0374-0719-2 (9781037407192)
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Person
Hernan Diaz is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Trust, which won the Pulitzer Prize and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. It was named 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 Award, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. Ply is his third novel.
