Choice

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. ― Michelle de Kretser

'Dazzling... by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking' ― Monica Ali

'Profound and beautiful' ― Paul Murray

'A vital, haunting, devastating read' ― Sarah Waters

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? How do the choices we make affect our work, our relationships, and our place in the world? Neel Mukherjee's new novel exposes the myths of individual choice, and confronts our fundamental assumptions about economics, race, appropriation, and the tangled ethics of contemporary life.

Choice is a scathing, compassionate quarrel with the world, a masterful inquiry into how we should live our lives, and how we should tell them.

'A magnificent achievement' ― Namwali Serpell

'A brilliant, bleak moral maze of a novel' ― Guardian

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. ― Karen Joy Fowler

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... This is Mukherjee giving all he's got, down to the very marrow of his bones. Profound and devastating, Choice is as dark and hauntingly beautiful as it gets. ― A. M. Homes