A State of Freedom
Neel Mukherjee
A State of Freedom
Neel Mukherjee
A novel of multiple narratives, set in contemporary India, the new book from Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author Neel Mukherjee explores the urge to escape the life we are given for something better.
Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature;;What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? ;;Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings of dislocation, and the desire for more. ;;Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.
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