Choice: A Novel

di Neel Mukherjee (Autore)

WW Norton & Co, 2024

"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.

• Autore: Neel Mukherjee
• Editore: WW Norton & Co
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 236 x 160 mm
• Peso: 493 gr.
• EAN: 9781324075011

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