Alejandro Zambra is the author of MY DOCUMENTS, which was a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and three previous novels: WAYS OF GOING HOME, THE PRIVATE LIVES OF TREES and BONSAI. His books have been translated into more than 10 languages and have received several international prizes. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Harper’s, Tin House and McSweeney’s, among others. In 2010, he was named one ofGranta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, and he is a 2015–16 Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library. He teaches literature at Diego Portales University, in Santiago, Chile.

Books by Alejandro Zambra

Multiple Choice

written by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell - Fiction, Humor, Satire

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.