A state of freedom
Subtitle: a novel
By: Neel Mukherjee
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780393292909
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology); Internal Migration; Fiction
Description: 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.