English

by Jeet Thayil and Thayil Jeet

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143031171
• ISBN13: 9780143031178
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: India Penguin
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.7"