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
Please, please, please put [Ply] on your list … I highly recommend [it] – Sarah Jessica Parker on Instagram
An edgy, compelling novel by a writer full of invention – The i Paper
Diaz brilliantly envisions how love, trust, and loyalty can remain when freedom and justice have collapsed and makes every page exhilarating and meaningful – Library Journal (Starred Review)
A brainy, challenging, and engrossing trek into a battered but unbeaten future – Kirkus (Starred Review)
Diaz is juggling an ambitious plot and thorny philosophical questions, yet the novel remains compulsively readable, carried along by intricate worldbuilding and strangely gorgeous evocations of ruin – Oprah Daily, The Best Books of Fall 2026
Ply is both a touching story of a young woman’s struggle to find security and peace … and a mind-bending reflection on the nature of time and space. Either story alone would be satisfying, but Diaz cleverly marries them in an intriguing union … Ply is a big, ambitious novel … Unquestionably the product of a fertile imaginative intelligence – Shelf Awareness
A fiercely intelligent look at the future of technology, climate and capitalism that will have you gripped – and while no one is judging, it might just be our favourite cover of the autumn – Elle, The Best New Books for Autumn 2026
A page-turning, pleasurably disorienting, and deeply humane vision of a possible future * Vogue *
After diving into historical fiction with his last two novels, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hernan Diaz brings his unparalleled writing [to] the future … [The protagonist’s] journey in [a] dystopian future reflects modern predicaments regarding technology, identity, and control – Harper’s Bazaar
Ply is a wild ride that ultimately asks what survives when everything around us has collapsed. Strap in! – Service95

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. Ply is his third novel.

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