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2016 selection · Fiction & literature
Multiple Choice
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, seriously great writing, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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