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A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
Category: Fiction
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 diff ...Show more
A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
Category: Fiction
*Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, New Statesmanand The Irish Times*'A brave and frequently devastating novel whose themes of displacement and dehumanisation are all too timely' Paul Murray'The most astonishing and brilliant novel I have read in a long, long time' Hanya YanagiharaWhat ...Show more
Choice by Neel Mukherjee
Category: Fiction
'Dazzling...by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking' Monica Ali A publisher, who is at war with his industry and himself, embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him; an academic exchanges one story for another after an accident brings a stranger into her li ...Show more
Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor; Neel Mukherjee (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
An amusing, wry homage to Jane Eyre by one of the best novelists of the twentieth century.When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance between young girl and austere widowed employer. Strange secrets abound in the ramshackle ...Show more
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
Category: Fiction
'Ma, I feel exhausted with consuming, with taking and grabbing and using. I am so bloated that I feel I cannot breathe any more. I am leaving to find some air, some place where I shall be able to purge myself, push back against the life given me and make my own. I feel I live in a borrowed house. It's t ...Show more
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
Category: Fiction
An epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta -- exploring a family that is decaying as the society around it fractures, and one young man who tries to reimagine his place in the world.***Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014*** Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has ...Show more
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
Category: Fiction
This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. It was the winner of the Encore Award. It is longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. It is longlisted for the Impac Prize. Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerou ...Show more
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