The Book of Chocolate Saints - Grand Format

Francis Newton Xavier has lived a life of excess in pursuit of an uncompromising aesthetic vision. His paintings and poems, which embody a flamboyant and decadent jeu d'esprit, are to be celebrated at a final show, and party, in New Delhi.y Approaching late middle-age, in a body ravaged by hard living, Xavier leaves Manhattan with his partner Goody Lol, and his journey to India becomes a delirious voyage into the past.
From his formative years with an infamous school of fin de siècle Bombay poets - as documented by his biographer, Dismas - Xavier must move into an uncertain future of salvation and damnation. Told in a dazzling range of voices and styles, The Book of Chocolate Saints is an epic novel of contemporary Indian life set in the mysterious margins where art bleeds into the occult. It is Jeet Thayil's mesmerising and dangerous masterpiece.