Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra (Spanish) Paperback Book

Description: Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell Completely unlike anything youve read before: this playful, poignant, genre-bending novel / entrance examination tells a story of copying, cheating, faking and messing-up. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE Spanish CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache. Will you choose to cheat (in life, the examination that follows) or will you choose to copy? Will you fall in love? If so, will you remember her name and the number of freckles on her back? Will you marry, divorce, annul? Will you leave your run-down neighbourhood, your long-suffering country and your family? Will you honour your dead, those you loved and those you didnt? Will you have a child, will you regret it? Will you tell them you regret it? Will you, when alls said and done, deserve a kick in the balls? Will you find, here, in this slender book, fictions that entertain and puzzle you? Fictions that reflect yourself back to you? Will you find yourself? Relax, concentrate, dispel any anxious thoughts. Let the world around you settle and fade. Are you ready? Now turn over your papers, and begin. Notes A playful, poignant and genre-bending novel, it tells a story of copying, cheating, faking and messing up, from the author hailed as Latin Americas new literary star by the New Yorker. Author Biography Alejandro Zambra is the author of the story collection My Documents, a finalist for the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award, and three previous novels: Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees, and Bonsai, which won Chiles Literary Critics Award for Best Novel. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harpers, Tin House, and McSweeneys, among others. In 2010, he was named one of Grantas Best Young Spanish-language Novelists. Review This year I was very happy to discover Alejandro Zambra. His new book, Multiple Choice, brilliantly translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, manages to blend Oulipian poetry, funny-sad short stories and choose-your-own-advevnture -- Joe Dunthorne, Best Books of 2016 * Observer *To my mind, the best of what experimental fiction be -- Taiye Selasi, Best Books of 2016 * Observer *This is composition set in the key of fun - ironic, playful, sometimes bitter. The translation by Megan McDowell skims across the tricky terrain with grace and ease, capturing the comic absurdities and dark moments without any apparent linguistic stumble or pause... [Zambra has] a wonderfully seductive, ludic charm. Multiple Choice will be embraced by Zambras devoted followers. Open-minded readers new to his quirky world could find it opening doors. Multiple doors perhaps * Spectator *Brilliant... funny... part philosophical parody, part satire, this is a highly original and poignant book -- Joanna Kavenna * Daily Telegraph *A masterful act of transformation that turns the reader into writer. Zambra gives us fragments, but he also gives us the autonomy to shore them up into something new: our very own book -- Chris Power * Guardian *Zambra builds an elegant structure out of the important elements of life-competition, pride, vigor, death, sex-against a landscape of political menace. Read his book and, as with all true art, youll be left wondering what it means but feeling that you know -- Atticus Lish, author * Preparation for the Next Life *Multiple Choice is unlike anything Ive ever encountered before. With his test questions and answers, the incomparable Alejandro Zambra creates verbal playgrounds for reverie, imagination, thought, and memory, and leads you through labyrinthine corridors in which you inevitably encounter yourself. Reading this book is a wonderfully disconcerting and unforgettable experience -- Francisco Goldman, author * Say Her Name *I loved Multiple Choice. I hate exams, but Ive sat this one a few times already. Id give it an A-. The minus for being too smart and getting the fuck away with it -- Stuart Evers, author * Your Father Sends His Love *There is no writer like Alejandro Zambra, no one as bold, as subtle, as funny. Multiple Choice is his most accomplished work yet, an apparently playful literary game you quickly realize is also deadly serious. This book is not to be missed -- Daniel Alarcón, author * At Night We Walk In Circles *As slim as Chile herself. As serrated and complex as her riddled coastline. Theres so much to admire and enjoy in this dazzling little book -- Gavin Corbett, author * Green Glowing Skull *Brilliant... Like a literary exercise for the mind, but strangely fun to decode. Keep yourself sharp with one of the most interesting writers working right now -- 19 Summer Reads That Everyone Will Be Talking About * Elle *When I read Zambra I feel like someones shooting fireworks inside my head. His prose is as compact as a grain of gunpowder, but its allusions and ramifications branch out and illuminate even the most remote corners of our minds -- Valeria Luiselli, author * The Story of My Teeth *Falling in love with Zambras literature is a fascinating road to travel. Imaginative and original, he is a master of short forms; I adore his devastating audacity -- Enrique Vila-Matas, author * The Illogic of Kassel *Zambra is the defining light of todays Latin American literature - an author whose cult is about to take over, the one well all be congratulating ourselves on having known about in the early days, before his deceptively slender masterpieces lay on ever American readers night table. Multiple Choice is the most daring distillation yet of his inimitable, take-no-prisoners genius -- John Wray, author of The Lost Time AccidentsI loved Multiple Choice. I hate exams, but Ive sat this one a few times already. Id give it an A-. The minus for being too smart and getting the fuck away with it. -- Stuart Evers, author * Your Father Sends His Love *An experimental novella, written in the form of a multiple choice examination... Brilliant, innovative, beautiful - David Marksons Vanishing Point meets Junot Diazs This Is How You Lost Her. -- Taiye Selasi, Summer must-reads * Guardian *A metatextual blast... the only real problem with this unusually pleasurable exam is that its over far too quickly -- Roger Cox * Scotsman *[Multiple Choice] blends fiction and memoir and messes enthusiastically with form. It is funny, melancholy, surprising. It is silly at times, profound at others. Its interactivity will entertain you, and might just change the way you think about fiction -- Chris Power * Guardian *One of the books of 2016... Full of wit, spark, pathos and insight... Multiple Choice goes beyond all expectations in terms of originality... [It is] one of the most thought-provoking, original and rewarding reads of the year... [as well as] a surprisingly touching and immersive experience... Once Id finished it the urge to immediately read it again [was] pretty much irresistible. It was even better the second time -- Jane Graham * Big Issue *Intriguing... [Multiple Choice] starts as comic wordplay but morphs gradually into a volley of melancholy nano-stories... inventive in form -- Anthony Cummins * Observer *Tantalising... Mordantly funny and highly arresting [...] with nods to that great Latin American experimentalist Borges -- Claire Allfree * Daily Mail *Zambras field of enquiry overspills the historical and political. It spreads far beyond Chilean borders and slips the bounds of narrative to question the very idea of a single, correct and definitive answer -- Stephen Phelan * Sunday Herald *Original and deeply moving * Good Housekeeping *Slowly, but surely, the questions and potential answers reveal profound takes on life in Chile under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet - both funny and melancholic... For all the plainness of the prose, read aloud this exercise and it almost takes the form of a sonnet. It is also heartbreaking -- Ben East * National *Zambra offers a series of vignettes - even short stories by the end - with multiple interpretations, or versions, layered on top of each other * davidsbookworld.com * Promotional Completely unlike anything youve read before: this playful, poignant, genre-bending novel / entrance examination tells a story of copying, cheating, faking and messing-up Prizes Long-listed for International Dublin Literary Award 2018 (Ireland) Long Description Completely unlike anything youve read before: this playful, poignant, genre-bending novel / entrance examination tells a story of copying, cheating, faking and messing-up. Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache. Will you choose to cheat (in life, the examination that follows) or will you choose to copy? Will you fall in love? If so, will you remember her name and the number of freckles on her back? Will you marry, divorce, annul? Will you leave your run-down neighbourhood, your long-suffering country and your family? Will you honour your dead, those you loved and those you didnt? Will you have a child, will you regret it? Will you tell them you regret it? Will you, when alls said and done, deserve a kick in the balls? Will you find, here, in this slender book, fictions that entertain and puzzle you? Fictions that reflect yourself back to you? Will you find yourself? Relax, concentrate, dispel any anxious thoughts. Let the world around you settle and fade. Are you ready? Now turn over your papers, and begin. Details ISBN1783782714 Author Megan McDowell Pages 112 Publisher Granta Books Year 2017 ISBN-10 1783782714 ISBN-13 9781783782710 Format Paperback Publication Date 2017-08-03 Media Book Imprint Granta Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 863.7 Translator Megan McDowell Language Spanish UK Release Date 2017-08-03 AU Release Date 2017-08-03 Audience General NZ Release Date 2017-08-22 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:102951643;

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