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Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra (2016, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100143109197

ISBN-139780143109198

eBay Product ID (ePID)219606192

Product Key Features

Original LanguageSpanish

Book TitleMultiple Choice

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicHispanic & Latino, Satire, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorAlejandro Zambra

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight3.8 Oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-019735

ReviewsFinalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award Named one of the Best Books of 2015 by The Boston Globe A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "All of [Zambra's books] are very short and strikingly original . . . In his new book, Zambra returns to the twin sources of his talent--to his storytelling vitality, that living tree which blossoms often in these pages, and to his unsparing examination of recent Chilean history." --James Wood, The New Yorker "The most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño . . . [Zambra's] generous stories satisfy our demand for narrative even as they question it." -- The New York Times Book Review "Zambra's books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence level, is in a world all his own. . . . [ My Documents burns] brighter than most anything we'd call exceptional, yesterday or today and in any language." --NPR "Much like Junot Díaz's Drown, the stories in Chilean author Zambra's collection are discrete tales that blend together with impressive fluidity. . . . A-" -- Entertainment Weekly "[A] dazzlingly funny and playful collection." -- John Freeman, The Boston Globe "Sentence-by-sentence pleasure . . . [Zambra's] most substantial achievement yet." --The Seattle Times "Spellbinding . . . [Zambra's] fiction is, quite simply, some of the best being produced today." --Matt Kessler, The Rumpus "Compulsive . . . fluent and engaging . . . If you are going to read Zambra, which you should, don't just read My Documents : read everything he's done." --The Guardian "This dynamite collection of stories has it all--Chile and Belgium, exile and homecomings, Pinochet and Simon and Garfunkel--but what I love most about the tales is their strangeness, their intelligence, and their splendid honesty." --Junot Díaz, author of This Is How You Lose Her "Zambra is so alert to the intimate beauty and mystery of being alive that in his hands a raindrop would feel as wide as a world." --Anthony Marra , author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena " My Documents is an act of literary levitation--luminous, magical and profound, written with the mysterious quality of weightlessness." --Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins "Zambra is the author of small classics--short in length, but enormous in every other way. My Documents elevates him to an entirely new level." --Valeria Luiselli, author of The Story of My Teeth

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal863.7

Synopsis"Brilliant, innovative, beautiful." -- The Guardian "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, 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

LC Classification NumberPQ8098.36.A43F3313