Choice
From Booker-shortlisted author Neel Mukherjee, a devastating鈥痭ew novel that exposes the myths of individual choice.鈥疕ow have we come to live this way? At what cost? Who pays the price?
A publisher, who is at war with his industry and himself, embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him; an academic exchanges one story for another after an accident brings a stranger into her life; and a family in rural India have their lives destroyed by a gift.These three ingeniously linked but distinct narratives, each of which has devastating unintended consequences, form a breathtaking exploration of freedom, responsibility, and ethics. What happens when market values replace other notions of value and meaning?鈥疕ow do the choices we make affect our work, our relationships, and our place in the world?
Neel Mukherjee鈥檚 new novel鈥痚xposes the myths of individual choice, and confronts our fundamental assumptions about economics, race, appropriation, and the tangled ethics of contemporary life.
Choice鈥痠s鈥痑 scathing, compassionate quarrel with the world, a masterful inquiry into how we should live our lives, and how we should tell them.
About the author
Neel Mukherjee won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for best fiction in 2010 for his debut novel鈥疉 Life Apart. His second novel,鈥疶he Lives of Others, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award and won the Encore Award.
His most recent novel,鈥疉 State of Freedom, was a鈥疦ew York Times鈥�'100 Notable Books of the Year' and heralded as 'Stunning ... a marvel of a book, shocking and beautiful, and it proves that Mukherjee is one of the most original and talented authors working today' (NPR).
Judge Xiaolu Guo on Choice
"A truly ambitious and compelling fiction from an author at the height of his powers. Choice lays out three narratives exploring 21st-century ethical and political dilemmas. The novel is not only intellectually impressive, it is also immensely moving, and shot through with heart-breaking moments."