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Multiple Choice

by Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell
Multiple Choice - Thryft
Multiple Choice - Thryft

Standardized test transforms into provocative storytelling.

"Multiple Choice" isn't just innovative in format—it's a conversation starter. Imagine tearing down the walls of traditional narrative to tinker with language, satire, and depth in a way that entices your intellect and tickles your sense of absurdity. Alejandro Zambra beckons you to dive into a book that's as much a puzzle as it is a reflection on society, education, and the human condition. If you're in for an adventurous reading experience that challenges how stories are told, this book will satisfy that craving beautifully.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Multiple Choice

by Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell
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ISBN: 9780143109198
Authors: Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2016-07-19
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Poetry
Related Topics: Literature, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.88
(rated by 5457 readers)

Description

The works of Alejandro Zambra, “the most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño” (New York Times Book Review), 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: Multiple Choice.   Written in the form of a standardized test, Multiple Choice 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, Multiple Choice 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, Multiple Choice confirms Alejandro Zambra as one of the most important writers working in any language.
 

Standardized test transforms into provocative storytelling.

"Multiple Choice" isn't just innovative in format—it's a conversation starter. Imagine tearing down the walls of traditional narrative to tinker with language, satire, and depth in a way that entices your intellect and tickles your sense of absurdity. Alejandro Zambra beckons you to dive into a book that's as much a puzzle as it is a reflection on society, education, and the human condition. If you're in for an adventurous reading experience that challenges how stories are told, this book will satisfy that craving beautifully.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.