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Choice : A Novel by Neel Mukherjee (2024, Hardcover)
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Choice, Hardcover by Mukherjee, Neel, ISBN 1324075015, ISBN-13 9781324075011, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A London publisher, Ayush, grapples with how to live and pushes himself and those around him, including his family and colleagues, into radical experiments that expose the tangled web of choice, consumption and the ethics of our interconnected world.
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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-101324075015
ISBN-139781324075011
eBay Product ID (ePID)23060897964
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Book TitleChoice : a Novel
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFamily Life, Literary
Publication Year2024
GenreFiction
AuthorNeel Mukherjee
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.4 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
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ReviewsThere are no obviously right or wrong decisions in these stories, only a series of actions that trap the characters within their own set of consequences...Mr. Mukherjee pulls the reader into these problems with a seriousness and technical excellence that makes a lot of what is published today seem immature. Choice asks much of readers. But, for all its pessimism, it trusts us to be up to it., Mukherjee puts his piercing intelligence and fine technique to the service of urgent issues and gargantuan choices, in a world where simple solutions are rarely available...a determinedly provocative work of fiction--passionate, graphic, and uncomfortable., Mukherjee is a great novelist. And a moralist in the central English tradition of E. M. Forster and Iris Murdoch. Like those classic novelists, he knows how to clothe ethical conflicts with sweeping narrative and convincing detail. The range of his knowledge--from London intellectual and professional life today to the precarious hardships of the 'ultra-poor' in Bengal--is shockingly deep. He is a writer of genius., These pages abound with misery: animal mistreatment, the harsh plight of refugees, and dire poverty. But the rewards--indelible images, admirable story-telling, and wicked good writing--are many., Choice is perhaps the most brilliant novel I've read this year. It is the reminder of why we need fiction. Profound and devastating, Choice is as dark and hauntingly beautiful as it gets. A masterpiece of the highest order., Choice is Neel Mukherjee's best book yet: a brooding meditation on the complexities of agency and duty, freedom and guilt, in a savagely unequal world. It's a vital, haunting, devastating read., ...beautifully written. There are countless wonderful descriptions...and subtle psychological insights., Choice is full of moments like this: complex, happily contradictory little flowerings of correspondence that can really be appreciated only in retrospect...[Mukherjee] is capable of sustained stretches of syntactically enterprising, engagingly disputatious prose, at once conversational and poetically compressed[.], Here is a magnificently clear-eyed portrait of our times lit equally by sorrow and rage. Neel Mukherjee is a superb writer, and Choice is his greatest work yet., Spanning continents, economic strata, human and non-human life, Neel Mukherjee's blistering, devastating novel paints an unforgettable portrait of a planet on the brink. From London to Eritrea, from the first world to the third, Choice's heroes--teachers, farmers, soldiers, mothers--are people with no choice at all, desperately trying to escape capture of the body and soul by forces they can't begin to understand. A searing indictment of neoliberal folly, a profound and beautiful meditation on compassion, this is exactly the kind of novel that we need now--the kind that nobody but Neel Mukherjee can write., A magnificent accomplishment. In each panel of this masterful triptych--or each movement of this classical sonata--exquisite prose gradually crescendos to jaw-dropping revelations...Choice is a deeply human novel, and a humane one...We come to realize, to feel through experiencing the successive waves of the novel's movements, that a human life is not simply the result of rational choices but rather, as Neel Mukherjee puts it, the lull between them--a rich and swaying lull, thick with love and responsibility., Mukherjee is brilliant at tracing the ways a choice deferred becomes a fate sealed. But the book's tripartite structure is even better at showing how we graze one another's lives with our decisions, some of which may be catastrophic for our conscience but beneficial for our art...a strangely uplifting, exquisitely droll heartbreaker of a book. To be in the company of his cool, calm, all-noticing prose is to experience something like the helpless wonder his characters experience when they concede that the cursed cow now controls their lives. The milk of human kindness can be found--but we may not have the power to stop it souring., Choice is full of moments like this: complex, happily contradictory little flowerings of correspondence that can really be appreciated only in retrospect...[Mukherjee] is capable of sustained stretches of syntactically enterprising, engagingly disputatious prose, at once conversational and poetically compressed...the result is a novel that is doubly decalmed: because it [has] qualms about the artifice of novelistic convention and because it passes up the opportunity offered by the alternative, to dramatize by presenting an argument that isn't settled in advance., Like many contemporary writers, Mukherjee is anxious about injustice. But in this brilliant, bleak moral maze of a novel, where every right turn is a wrong one, we will find no lessons about what is to be done...even if Lenin lurks in the epigraphs. Choice is more like the tale of the enlightenment of Buddha, the awakened one (the woke one, we'd say today), which Ayush fixates on: it rouses our moral intuitions from privileged slumber and spurs us not to action, but to intricate contemplation of what actions mean., Possessed of great moral seriousness, Choice is also very funny in its satirical excoriation of the obsession with calculating life in purely economic terms in so many realms of contemporary life. Its argument against utilitarian thinking is beautifully and powerfully done., Mukherjee impresses. He captivates readers but also stimulates them by rigorously exploring race, agency, equality, the weight of our moral quandaries and the implications of our choices., A masterpiece of the highest order--Neel Mukherjee uses the tools of fiction to illustrate the impact of economics across generations and cultures with such precision that it would be unbearable if not for the equal measure of compassion we feel for these characters. Profound and devastating, Choice is as dark and hauntingly beautiful as it gets., Neel Mukherjee is a great novelist...He knows how to clothe ethical conflicts with sweeping narrative and convincing detail. The range of his knowledge--from London intellectual and professional life today to the precarious hardships of the 'ultra-poor' in Bengal--is shockingly deep. He is a writer of genius., Neel Mukherjee's keen eyes, formidable intelligence, masterful scalpel, and compassionate approach offer us reassurance and hope without any illusion., Neel Mukherjee is a great novelist. And a moralist in the central English tradition of E. M. Forster and Iris Murdoch. Like those classic novelists, he knows how to clothe ethical conflicts with sweeping narrative and convincing detail. The range of his knowledge--from London intellectual and professional life today to the precarious hardships of the 'ultra-poor' in Bengal--is shockingly deep. He is a writer of genius., Choice is a magnificent accomplishment. In each panel of this masterful triptych--or each movement of this classical sonata--exquisite prose gradually crescendos to jaw-dropping revelations. The three parts of the novel reflect upon and refract one another, without ever being drawn into a plot of causality or a narrative of triumph, and without ever giving up their utter singularity and incommensurability. Possessed of great moral seriousness, Choice is also very funny in its satirical excoriation of the obsession with calculating life in purely economic terms in so many realms of contemporary life. It is, in short, a deeply human novel, and a humane one. The people in it, their lives, feel completely real, each given their due in more than one sense. Its argument against utilitarian thinking is beautifully and powerfully done., This book speaks to our present moment with such intelligence as to move it from the merely brilliant to the vitally important. Kaleidoscopic yet intimate, philosophical yet affecting, Choice is a stunning, haunting accomplishment., Choice burns brightly with fierce intelligence, with wisdom and compassion, and achieves what so few novels even attempt: it makes the reader think deeply about how we've come to live this way, at what cost, and about those who pay the greatest price., Searing, poetic and beautifully brutal, Choice reveals just how far the imagination--when buoyed by courage and conscience--can travel. One realization I take with me from Mukherjee's intrepid prose is this: to be honest in our living, and to refuse despair, is to assent to a whole new vocabulary of humility., If the world were a patient, one would like to entrust it to a surgeon like Neel Mukherjee, whose keen eyes, formidable intelligence, masterful scalpel, and compassionate approach would offer us reassurance and hope without any illusion. A powerful novel about many of our contemporary dilemmas, Choice will stay with the readers long after we finish the last line., Set in the disparate worlds of London publishing, academia, and a rural Indian village, Choice is by turns comic, lyrical, and heartbreaking. Neel Mukherjee casts his gimlet eye on the hypocrisies and self-deceits that facilitate the perpetuation of a way of organizing our societies that locks in divisions and inequalities. And he does so through a cast of characters who are never less than fully human. Choice burns brightly with fierce intelligence, with wisdom and compassion, and achieves what so few novels even attempt: it makes the reader think deeply about how we've come to live this way, at what cost, and about those who pay the greatest price., [Mukherjee] is capable of sustained stretches of syntactically enterprising, engagingly disputatious prose, at once conversational and poetically compressed...the result is a novel that is doubly decalmed: because it [has] qualms about the artifice of novelistic convention and because it passes up the opportunity offered by the alternative, to dramatize by presenting an argument that isn't settled in advance., Mukherjee is brilliant at tracing the ways a choice deferred becomes a fate sealed. But the book's tripartite structure is even better at showing how we graze one another's lives with our decisions, some of which may be catastrophic for our conscience but beneficial for our art...a strangely uplifting, exquisitely droll heartbreaker of a book. To be in the company of his cool, calm, all-noticing prose is to experience something like the helpless wonder his characters experience...The milk of human kindness can be found--but we may not have the power to stop it souring., Choice is funny, horrible, ironic, damning, affecting and deadly serious. It says that everything is connected and real escape from the world we have made is impossible...a seriously impressive achievement., The reminder of why we need fiction. A masterpiece of the highest order--Neel Mukherjee uses the tools of fiction to illustrate the impact of economics across generations and cultures with such precision that it would be unbearable if not for the equal measure of compassion we feel for these characters. Profound and devastating, Choice is as dark and hauntingly beautiful as it gets., A searing indictment of neoliberal folly, a profound and beautiful meditation on compassion, Choice is exactly the kind of novel we need now--the kind that nobody but Neel Mukherjee can write.
SynopsisOne of the Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of 2024 * A Guardian Selection for Best Fiction of 2024 * A Chicago Public Library Must-Read Book of 2024 * Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by the BBC An ingenious, devastating, explosive novel about the ramifications of choice from "one of the most original and talented authors working today" (NPR)., "How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her life to veer in an unexpected direction. Another author, an economist, describes how the gift of a cow to an impoverished family on the West Bengal-Bangladesh border sets them on a startling path to tragedy. Together, these connected narratives raise the question: How free are we really to make our own choices? In a scathing, compassionate quarrel with the world, Neel Mukherjee confronts our fundamental assumptions about economics, race, appropriation, and the tangled ethics of contemporary life., A Chicago Public Library Must-Read Book of 2024 Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by the BBC An ingenious, devastating, explosive novel about the ramifications of choice from "one of the most original and talented authors working today" (NPR).
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- May 13, 2024
Fantastic copy that arrived just in time (whew) for me to attend the writer's book reading event and get it signed!
Fantastic copy that arrived just in time (whew) for me to attend the writer's book reading event and get it signed!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
