# English

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- Authors: [Thayil Jeet](https://www.bookquiver.com/thayil-jeet)
- Language: en_IN
- Published: 2020-03-01

## Description

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.

## Editions

### English

- Publisher: India Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4303-117-8
- Pages: 280
- Published: 2020-03-01
- Language: en_IN