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. It offers a new kind of reading
experience, one in which the reader participates directly in the
creation of meaning, and the nature of storytelling itself is called
into question. At once funny, poignant, and political, Multiple Choice
is about love and family, authoritarianism and its legacies, and the
conviction that, rather than learning to think for ourselves, we are
trained to obey and repeat. Serious in its literary ambition and playful
in its execution, it confirms Alejandro Zambra as one of the most
important writers working in any language.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, ELLE,
THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE MILLIONS, VOX, LIT HUB, THE BBC, THE GUARDIAN
AND PUREWOW
