The book of chocolate saints
Thayil, Jeet, 1959-2018
Book
'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 Prize-shortlisted novel was acclaimed, Jeet Thayil paints a hallucinatory portrait of an ambiguous soul: a self-destructive figure living a wild existence of excess in pursuit of his uncompromising aesthetic vision, and a charismatic contrarian battling with his conflicting instincts.
Main title:
The book of chocolate saints / Jeet Thayil.
Author:
Thayil, Jeet, 1959-, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2018.
Collation:
vii, 479 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780571341498 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
2623275