A State of Freedom

What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? A State of Freedom prises open the central defining events of our century-displacement and migration-but not as you imagine them. Five characters 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.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.