
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra is a novel structured as a multiple choice test, mimicking the Chilean Academic Verbal Aptitude Test. The book delves into various topics such as human nature, politics, marriage, and relationships through a series of questions that range from inane to insightful. The format of the book presents a mix of the mundane and the extraordinary, the absurd and the rational, all within its 100 pages, providing a unique and thought-provoking reading experience.
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Content warnings for Multiple Choice include themes of betrayal, existential anxiety, and references to sociopolitical turmoil in Chile.
Has Romance?
There are elements of romance present throughout the book, framed within the context of broader relationship dynamics.
From The Publisher:
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
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About the Author:
Alejandro Zambra is the author of Multiple Choice; My Documents, a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award; and three previous novels: Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees, and Bonsai. The recipient of numerous literary…
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