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A State of Freedom
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ISBN/EAN: 9781473523104
Umbreit-Nr.: 4337510
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 288 S., 1.71 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 06.07.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
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- Zusatztext
- <p><b>What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better?</b></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>
- Kurztext
- Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureWhat happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? 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.
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Neel Mukherjee</b>is the author of two previous novels,<i>A Life Apart</i>(2010), which won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for best novel, and<i>The Lives of Others</i>(2014), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the Encore Prize for best second novel.