The narrator in Jeet Thayil's second full-length collection abandons the sectarian histories of 1990s' Bombay for New York City-and the events of September 11, 2001. In the faux prologue poem, 'About the Author', he stands on 'Sixth, watching ruin, with/a handful of rain and a prophecy', a citizen of no country except the republic that gives the book its title. English here is more than a language. It is a source of divinity, and it holds a hard-won tenderness for all things living.
- ISBN10 0143031171
- ISBN13 9780143031178
- Publish Date 16 March 2020 (first published 15 June 2008)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country IN
- Publisher Penguin Random House India
- Imprint Penguin
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 280
- Language English