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Publisher | Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Publication Year | 2000 |
ISBN-13 | 9780143031178 |
ISBN-10 | 9780143031178 |
Binding | Paperback |
Number of Pages | 84 Pages |
Language | (English) |
Dimensions (Cms) | 20 x 14 x 4 |
Weight (grms) | 150 |
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.
Jeet Thayil
Penguin Random House India Private Limited