'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, an extraordinary thriller and novel of ideas.
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. Someone is following her. Soon, the pincher 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 an extraordinary scientific experiment that could change the fabric of reality itself.
Set in a future filled with both uncertainty and promise, Ply is a deeply moving novel that interrogates the role of technology in a changed society. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.
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
| ISBN: | 9781037407161 |
| Publication date: | 24th September 2026 |
| Author: | Hernan Diaz |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 464 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Technothriller Thriller: organised crime Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world Narrative theme: Social issues Speculative fiction |
'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, an extraordinary thriller and novel of ideas.
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. Someone is following her. Soon, the pincher 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 an extraordinary scientific experiment that could change the fabric of reality itself.
Set in a future filled with both uncertainty and promise, Ply is a deeply moving novel that interrogates the role of technology in a changed society. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.
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
Ply features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Technothriller, Thriller: organised crime, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Narrative theme: Social issues, Speculative fiction
Ply is available in Paperback, Hardback
Ply was written by Hernan Diaz and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Ply has 464 pages
£18.00