\'The most astonishing and brilliant novel I have read in a long, long time\' Hanya YanagiharaWhat happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? A State of Freedom prises open the central, defining events of our century - displacement and migration - but not as you imagine them.. \'The most astonishing and brilliant novel I have read in a long, long time\' Hanya YanagiharaWhat happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? A State of Freedom prises open the central, defining events of our century - displacement and migration - but not as you imagine them.