The Book of Chocolate Saints
Книга "The Book of Chocolate Saints"
Авторы: Jeet Thayil
Издатель: Faber & Faber
Год издания 2019
Страниц: 479
ISBN: 978-0-57-133611-1, 978-0-571-33611-1
Описание
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, a charismatic contrarian, and a tortured artist battling with his conflicting instincts. His paintings and poems embodying the decadent jeu d'esprit of his heroes like Baudelaire forged his reputation, which is celebrated at a show in Delhi. Approaching middle-age, Xavier leaves Manhattan following 9/11, and his journey home to India becomes a voyage into his past. From his formative years with an infamous school of Bombay poets - documented by his biographer, Diswas - to an uncertain future, Xavier's story shows how the artist's life itself can become the final monument. The Book of Chocolate Saints explores our deepest urges in a novel that is sexy, dangerous, and entirely uncompromising. It is intoxicating, blazingly intelligent literary fiction - a strange, beautiful hymn to the artistic life lived fearlessly - that consolidates Thayil's reputation as one of the most exciting writers of his generation.
Характеристики
- Наименование The Book of Chocolate Saints
- Категория Книги/Книги на иностранных языках/Книги на английском языке/Современная проза на английском
- Авторы Jeet Thayil
- Издатель Faber & Faber
- Год издания 2019
- Всего страниц 479
- ISBN 978-0-57-133611-1, 978-0-571-33611-1
- Способ получения Доставка, самовывоз
- Тип Книга
- Продавец Читай-город
- Актуальность 05.11.2026
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