TY - BOOK AU - Mukherjee,Neel TI - A state of freedom SN - 9781784701734 AV - PR9499.4.M84 S72 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Migration, Internal KW - India KW - Fiction N1 - "Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize" -- Cover; Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2017 N2 - 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 ER -