The Book Of Chocolate Saints

by Jeet Thayil

Book Overview

In incandescent prose, award-winning novelist Jeet Thayil tells the story of Newton Francis Xavier, blocked poet, serial seducer of young women, reformed alcoholic (but only just), philosopher, recluse, all-round wild man and India's greatest living painter. At the age of sixty-six, Xavier, who has been living in New York, is getting ready to return to the land of his birth to stage one final show of his work (accompanied by a mad bacchanal). As we...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 938602103X
• ISBN13: 9789386021038
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Aleph Book Company
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"