The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation or damnation or perhaps both. In the swooning, hypnotic prose for which his Man Booker Prizeshortlisted novel was acclaimed, Jeet Thayil paints a hallucinatory portrait of an ambiguous soul a selfdestructive figure living a wild existence of excess in pursuit of his uncompromising aesthetic vision, a charismatic contrarian, and a tortured artist battling with his conflicting instincts. His paintings and poems embodying the decadent jeu desprit of his heroes like Baudelaire forged his reputation, which is celebrated at a show in Delhi. Approaching middleage, Xavier leaves Manhattan following 9/11, and his journey home to India becomes a voyage into his past. From his formative years with an infamous school of Bombay poets documented by his biographer, Diswas to an uncertain future, Xaviers story shows how the artists life itself can become the final monument. The Book of Chocolate Saints explores our deepest urges in a novel that is sexy, dangerous, and entirely uncompromising. It is intoxicating, blazingly intelligent literary fiction a strange, beautiful hymn to the artistic life lived fearlessly that consolidates Thayils reputation as one of the most exciting writers of his generation.

Binding: Paperback;496 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 510 g; Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 32

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