Ply

'Ply is majestic. A cracked mirror world, a lot like ours; peopled by survivors, a lot like us; sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss, love, trust, betrayal, art, science, society and control.' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas 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. Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher - someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market or, in her case, to power the underground music scene she adores. It is a high-risk life, and now she is being followed. 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 groundbreaking experiment that, if she can source the electricity to power it, could change the fabric of reality itself. Set in a future filled with both uncertainty and promise, Ply is a powerfully humane novel that interrogates the role of technology in a deeply changed society. Both an electrifying thriller and a profound novel of ideas, it offers a hopeful glimpse of a new world that may be growing out of the cracks and fissures we see all around us. 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

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.