A State of Freedom
By - Neel Mukherjee
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What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? A State of Freedom prises open the central, defining events of our century-displacement and migration-but not as you imagine them. Five characters, 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. Moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel of multiple narratives-formally daring, fierce but full of pity-delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.
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Neel Mukherjee is the author of two novels, a Life Apart (2010), which won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for best novel and the Lives of Others (2014), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Costa Best Novel Award and won the Encore Prize for best second novel. He lives in London.
ISBN : 9780670090150 Price : Rs.599.00
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