Trust

Money and conscience are at the heart of Cynthia Ozick''s masterly first novel narrated by a nameless young woman and set in the private world of wealthy New York the dire landscape of postwar Europe and the mythical groves of a Shakespearean isle. Beginning in the 1930s and extending through four decades Trust is an epic tale of the narrator''s quest for her elusive father a scandalous figure whom she has never known. In a provocative afterword Ozick reflects on how she came to write the novel and discusses the cultural shift in the nature of literary ambition in the years since.