A State of Freedom
A Novel
by Neel Mukherjee
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Pub Date Jan 02 2018 | Archive Date Dec 31 2017
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Advance Praise
"Man Booker Prize short-listed Mukherjee (for The Lives of Others) gathers a cast of untethered characters to present urgent, even beseeching, testimony on how the titular 'state of freedom' is too often more impossible dream than achievable reality." - Library Journal, starred review
“Neel Mukherjee's breathtaking A State of Freedom is that rarest, most wonderful of things: a book both literarily dextrous, full of unforgettable scenes, images, language, and characters, as well as a furious, unsparing, clear-eyed study of how a society's gross inequities of money and power demean and deform the human condition. The most astonishing and brilliant novel I have read in a long, long time.” - Hanya Yanagihara
“Neel Mukherjee’s A State of Freedom is a novel like no other—its prose is so rich, unequivocally precise and graceful that it allows Mukherjee to illustrate the most horrific of experiences with stunning compassion. A State of Freedom is more than a novel—it is an immersive experience. He writes like a painter, his language is his palette, bringing to life the variation of India’s cities and towns in a dense multi-layered world where modern life, by accident or intention, tears at traditions that are centuries old.” - A.M. Homes
“Fans of Neel Mukherjee expect that his books will be exceptional and once again he has produced just that. A State of Freedom is formally audacious, vividly observed, and deeply imagined. Unsentimental yet full of heart, grimly real yet mysteriously dreamlike, with characters who continue to live their complicated lives long after you've turned the last page. Just a beautiful, beautiful piece of work.” - Karen Joy Fowler
“A State of Freedom is an extraordinary achievement. Subtle and multi-layered, it's a study of the brutality of social divisions, written with tremendous tenderness; a work that insists on the dignity of figures obliged to lead undignified lives. A powerful, troubling novel. The moment I finished it, I began it again.” - Sarah Waters
“An extraordinary, compassionate, complex, hard-hitting wonder of a book. It is in a class of its own.” - Rose Tremain
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780393292909 |
| PRICE | $25.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 304 |
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In these separate but interwoven tales of individuals trying to obtain freedom, whether freedom from want, freedom from responsibility, freedom from oppression or, above all, freedom from pain, the strengths of the bonds that tie humans to each other are tried and found lacking. This is a richly and fully-realized novel of a desperate desire that lies within each person to be free from constraining circumstances and to seek something better. The multiple perspectives are a rewarding means of constructing a narrative that covers a variety of places and times.
The descriptions and language are strongly evocative. The reader suffers through the heat, feels the driving rain and waits with the characters for the weather to turn. The characters' incomprehension and suffering is the reader's.
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