Trust by Hernan Diaz
Published 2022 · 366 pages · 93,209 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
How hard is Trust to read?
Trust scores 62 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 50 out of 100
- Financial and literary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Four sections with distinct styles.
- Abstraction: 60 out of 100
- Truth, capital, and narrative control.
- Information density: 60 out of 100
- Dense with financial and historical detail.
- Narrative indirection: 70 out of 100
- Four contradictory versions.
- Symbolic density: 60 out of 100
- Trust, money, narrative carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 60 out of 100
- Diaz maintains metafictional distance.
- Resolution withholding: 65 out of 100
- Truth remains contested.
- Structural complexity: 70 out of 100
- Four nested narratives.
How Trust is regarded
Trust holds a literary regard score of 75 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.