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.