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Multiple choice / Alejandro Zambra ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.

by Zambra, Alejandro, 1975-

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Penguin Books, c2016.

Multiple-choice examinations -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Authoritarianism -- Fiction.

Apathy -- Fiction.

9780143109198 (pbk.)

Facsímil. English

101 p. ; 20 cm.

In English, translated from the original Spanish.

"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"--From publisher.

Experimental fiction.

Chilean fiction -- Translations into English.

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.

McDowell, Megan.

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