Ebook {Epub PDF} The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil

 · Just 50 pages into Jeet Thayil’s absorbing, determined The Book of Chocolate Saints, one of the recurring voices in the novel (part of which is depicted as a Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. The fictionalised Mumbai painter, poet and former Jesuit schoolboy at the heart of The Book of Chocolate Saints first appeared in Jeet Thayil ’s Man Booker-shortlisted debut, Narcopolis. Thayil Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. 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.

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