Atlantic Books lands two-book deal with Mukherjee

Atlantic Books has landed a two-book deal with Neel Mukherjee, the first of which is titled Choice and will publish in spring 2024.

Publishing director Poppy Hampson acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, including India, from Sarah Chalfant at The Wylie Agency.

The synopsis for the upcoming book reads: “Choice is a bold and dramatic novel that asks the reader to consider: should we be driven by moral values or market values? And how will the choices we make affect our work, our relationships and our place in the world? In three ingeniously linked but distinct narratives, we meet a publisher who is at war with his industry and himself; an academic who exchanges one story for another, after an accident that brings a stranger into her life; and a family in rural India whose lives are destroyed by a gift. Together these stories, each of which has devastating unintended consequences, form a breathtaking exploration of freedom, responsibility and ethics. They reappraise assumptions about race, appropriation and the economy of our cultural world. Choice is a masterful enquiry into how we should live our lives, and how we should tell them.“

Hampson said: “Neel Mukherjee is an extraordinary and fearless writer. He forces us to ask hard questions of his characters and then ourselves, and this novel will grip you, shake you, and leave you seeing the world anew. I love his bold storytelling, his formal inquisitiveness and his dark humour.”