'A brilliant bleak moral maze of a novel ' Guardian 'Dazzling... by turns comic lyrical
and heartbreaking' Monica Ali 'Profound and beautiful' Paul Murray author of The Bee Sting
'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 superb writer... his greatest work yet' Michelle de Kretser
