Format:
Book
Author:
Mukherjee, Neel, author.
Title:
A state of freedom : a novel / Neel Mukherjee.
Edition:
First American edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
©2017
Description:
278 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
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 meaning 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 of multiple narratives explores displacement and migration, and the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.
Subjects:
Migration, Internal -- India -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
ISBN:
0393292908 (hardcover)
9780393292909 (hardcover)
Other Number:
988280796
System Availability:
8
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3572248
Call Number:
823/.92
Course Reserves:
0
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8