you can also see ours there, too, with each type is edition of brok shortly after the finished.ll be back shortly. —— the papers. migration, human dislocation is one of the dominating political themes of our day. and it is the springboard for neel mukherjee in his new novel, a state of freedom. set in india, which portrays five different, but sometimes interlocking, lives that are in flux, on the move, looking for escape, or at least something better. a story for our time indeed. welcome. on the frontispiece of the book, before the story begins, you quote a syrian refugee on the austrian border, saying: "migrants, we're not migrants — we're ghosts. that's what we are, ghosts". now, the ghost is sort of suspended between this world and the next. is that the guts of that idea? yes, that is exactly the soul of my book. i wanted to look at migration, which is the thing that most characterises our times. people moving, mass movement of people from one place to another. and i wanted to sort of splice their history by thinking about the ghost story. because, what is a ghost? a ghost is