Pulitzer Prize Winner Hernan Diaz for Ply

This autumn, we welcome Hernan Diaz, the Pulitzer prize-winning, booker-longlisted, Sunday Times bestselling author of _Trust._ in 2024, _Trust_ was also named one of the New York Times' 100 best books of the century.

Diaz's previous novel, _In the Distance_, was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize and the Pen/Faulkner award.Diaz's forthcoming novel, _Ply,_ is powerfully humane.

It interrogates the role of technology in a deeply changed society, and is a gripping quest for truth at the dawn of a new era. _Ply_ boldly charts the boundaries of selfhood, and the distance that stands between us and those we love._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.

Soon, she 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 a scientific experiment that could change the fabric of reality itself._