Multiple Choice
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<b>“<i>Multiple Choice</i> is unlike anything I’ve ever encountered before. . . . Reading this book is a wonderfully disconcerting and unforgettable experience.” —Francisco Goldman, author of<i>Say Her Name</i></b><br><b><i> </i></b><br><b>“There is no writer like Alejandro Zambra, no one as bold, as subtle, as funny.<i>Multiple Choice</i> is his most accomplished work yet. This book is not to be missed.” —Daniel Alarcón, author of<i>At Night We Walk In Circles</i></b><br><b> </b><br><b>A masterful, pioneering new work of fiction by “Latin America’s new literary star” (<i>The New Yorker</i>)</b><br> <br>The works of Alejandro Zambra, “the most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño” (<i>New York Times Book Review</i>), are distinguished by their striking originality, their brevity, their strangeness, and their flouting of narrative convention. Now, at the height of his powers, Zambra returns with a book that is the natural extension of these qualities:<i>Multiple Choice</i>.<br> <br>Written in the form of a standardized test, <i>Multiple Choice</i> invites the reader to complete virtuoso language exercises and engage with short narrative passages via multiple-choice questions that are thought-provoking, usually unanswerable, and often absurd. It offers a new kind of reading experience, one where the reader participates directly in the creation of meaning. Full of humor, melancholy, and anger,<i>Multiple Choice</i> is about love and family; privacy and the limits of closeness; how a society is affected by the legacies of the past; and the conviction that, rather than learning to think, we are trained to obey and repeat. Serious in its literary ambition but playful in its execution, <i>Multiple Choice</i> confirms Alejandro Zambra as one of the most important writers working in any language.
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