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Multiple Choice

by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell

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A "brilliant, innovative, beautiful" (The Guardian) book from the acclaimed author of Chilean Poet "Dazzling . . . a work of parody, but also of poetry." —The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE GUARDIAN, AND THE IRISH TIMES “Latin America’s new literary star” (The New Yorker), Alejandro Zambra is celebrated around the world for his strikingly original, slyly funny, daringly unconventional fiction. Now, at the height of his powers, Zambra returns with his most audaciously brilliant book yet. Written in the form of a standardized test, Multiple Choice invites the reader to respond to virtuoso language exercises and short narrative passages through multiple-choice questions that are thought-provoking, usually unanswerable, and often absurd.…

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"Every author makes decisions while writing; every reader makes choices while interpreting. Usually you can ignore the rejected possibilities on either side. Not so with Multiple Choice. This haunting book-in-test-form demands that you carefully consider how things could be different. Cut this sentence, swap this word, ponder this explanation. Does that sound like a bloodless bit of formal experimentation? It’s not: This is a book about love, loss, guilt, empathy, inequality and life under Chile’s dictatorship. It’s a slim volume, but calls for lingering. It’s beautiful, fascinating, brilliant, brutal, all of the above."
NPR Books We Love — 2016 · apps.npr.org