“Granular, unflinching… and so, so vivid” – A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee

"A State of Freedom is not an easy read. This is in part down to its complexity, but mainly it’s due to the brutality being meted out – cruelty that is ubiquitous, many-formed, casually administered, mostly unchallenged and non-gratuitous. Mukherjee takes the reader into the lives of those who aren’t principally ‘good’ or ‘bad’, but real. He wants to throw a light onto India’s vast and hidden interior, and show how connected that core remains to her much celebrated exterior. And he succeeds at every level. An extraordinary and powerful work..." - Tamim Sadikali reviews A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee

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