Multiple Choice

Resumen del libro

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 didn't? Will you have a child, will you regret it? Will you tell them you regret it? Will you, when all's 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Alejandro Zambra (Santiago de Chile, 1975) ha publicado, en Anagrama, las novelas x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Bonsáix{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (2006), x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La vida privada de los árbolesx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (2007), x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Formas de volver a casax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (2011) y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Poeta chilenox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (2020), el libro de cuentos x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Mis documentosx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (2014), las colecciones de ensayos x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em No leerx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (2018) y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Tema librex{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (2019), y un par de libros bastante más difíciles de clasificar, como el particularísimo x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Facsímilx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , que Anagrama recuperó en 2021, y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Literatura infantilx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (2023), una serie de relatos, de ficción y no ficción, sobre infancia y paternidad. Sus novelas han sido traducidas a veinte lenguas, y sus relatos han aparecido en revistas como x{0026}lt;em The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Granta, Harperx{0026} x02019;sx{0026}lt;/em y x{0026}lt;em McSweeneyx{0026} x02019;sx{0026}lt;/em . Ha sido becario de la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York y ha recibido, entre otras distinciones, el English Pen Award, el O. Henry Prize y el Premio Príncipe Claus. Actualmente vive en la Ciudad de México.x{0026}lt;/p