A state of freedom : a novel / Neel Mukherjee.
What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into?--Set in contemporary India and 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.
What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Five characters in very different circumstances-- from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to 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.
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- ISBN: 9780393292909
- ISBN: 0393292908
- Physical Description: 278 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York ; W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2017
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Subject: | Migration, Internal > India > Fiction. India > Fiction. FICTION / Literary. Migration, Internal. India. Migration, Internal > India > Fiction. India > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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Homer Public Library | F MUKHERJEE (Text) | 000144419 | Fiction | Available | - |