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,
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