Fortuna

In the triumphant twenties, Benjamin Rask and his wife Helen rule New York: he, a financial magnate who has amassed a fortune; she, the daughter of some eccentric aristocrats. But as the decade draws to a close, and their excesses reveal a dark side, suspicions begin to surround the Rasks... That's the starting point of Obligations, a bestselling 1937 novel that makes all of New York seem have read and that tells a story that can, however, be told in some other way. In Fortuna, Hernán Díaz composes a masterful literary puzzle: a sum of voices, of confronting versions that complement, qualify and contradict each other, and, in doing so, place the reader before the frontiers and limits between reality and fiction, between the truth -perhaps impossible to find- and its manipulated version.