The Book of Chocolate Saints (ePub)
'Easily the most original and formally inventive novel to come out of India in years.' Salman Rushdie, Guardian
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'Easily the most original and formally inventive novel to come out of India in years.' Salman Rushdie, Guardian
Francis Newton Xavier has lived a wild existence of excess in pursuit of his uncompromising aesthetic vision. His paintings and poems - which embody the flamboyant and decadent jeu d'esprit of his heroes like Baudelaire - have forged his reputation, which is to be celebrated at a new show in Delhi.
Approaching middle age in a body ravaged by hard-living, Xavier leaves Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks with his young girlfriend - and his journey home to India becomes a delirious voyage into the past. From his formative years with an infamous school offin de siècle Bombay poets - as documented by his biographer, Diswas, in these pages - Xavier must move forward into an uncertain future of salvation or damnation.
His story results in The Book of Chocolate Saints: an epic novel of contemporary Indian life that probes the mysterious margins where art bleeds into the occult, and celebrates the artist's life itself as a final monument. It is Jeet Thayil's spiritual, passionate, and demented masterpiece.
The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008). He currently lives in Bangalore.
- Autor: Jeet Thayil
- 2018, Main, 384 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd.
- ISBN-10: 0571336124
- ISBN-13: 9780571336128
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.02.2018
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