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In You have no normal country to return to, Tom Sastryexplores questions of national identity and ‘the end of history’. A blistering,bleakly funny and timely second poetry collection, following hisSeamus Heaney First Collection Prize shortlisted, A Man’s HouseCatches Fire. By turns crisply satirical and questioning, You haveno normal country to return to ranges across the legacies of Empire,postwar migration and the current crisis in English identity. Sastry’s precise,brilliantly attuned poetry asks how the times we live in and the tales we tellabout them affect us; how our emotional landscapes are shaped by national mythsand the more personal stories we tell about ourselves. It is a book aboutillusion, and discovering, again and again, that what was once taken forgranted was never really there; a guidebook for an age of “enchantmentscollapsing on themselves”.
