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The Book of Chocolate Saints

Af: Jeet Thayil Engelsk Hardback

The Book of Chocolate Saints

Af: Jeet Thayil Engelsk Hardback
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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 greatestiving painter. At the age of sixty-six, Xavier, who has beeniving in New York, is getting ready to return to theand of his birth to stage one final show of his work (accompanied by a mad bacchanal). As we accompany Xavier and his partner and muse "Goody'' on their unsteady and frequently sidetracked journey from New York to New Delhi, the venue of the final show, we meet a host of memorable characters”the Bombay poets of the seventies and eighties, "poets who sprouted from the soilike weeds or mushrooms or carnivorous new flowers, who arrivedike meteors, burned bright for a season or two and vanished without a trace'', journalists, conmen, murderers, alcoholics, addicts, artists, whores, societyadies, thugs”and are also given unforgettable (and sometimes unbearable) insights intoove, madness, poetry, sex, painting, saints, death, God and the savagery that fuels all great art. Narrated in a huge variety of voices and styles, all of which blend seamlessly into a novel of remarkable accomplishment, The Book of Chocolate Saints is the sort ofiterary masterpiece that only comes along once in a veryong time.
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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 greatestiving painter. At the age of sixty-six, Xavier, who has beeniving in New York, is getting ready to return to theand of his birth to stage one final show of his work (accompanied by a mad bacchanal). As we accompany Xavier and his partner and muse "Goody'' on their unsteady and frequently sidetracked journey from New York to New Delhi, the venue of the final show, we meet a host of memorable characters”the Bombay poets of the seventies and eighties, "poets who sprouted from the soilike weeds or mushrooms or carnivorous new flowers, who arrivedike meteors, burned bright for a season or two and vanished without a trace'', journalists, conmen, murderers, alcoholics, addicts, artists, whores, societyadies, thugs”and are also given unforgettable (and sometimes unbearable) insights intoove, madness, poetry, sex, painting, saints, death, God and the savagery that fuels all great art. Narrated in a huge variety of voices and styles, all of which blend seamlessly into a novel of remarkable accomplishment, The Book of Chocolate Saints is the sort ofiterary masterpiece that only comes along once in a veryong time.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 512
ISBN-13: 9789386021038
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 938602103X
Kategori: Moderne Samtidslitteratur
Udg. Dato: 20 nov 2017
Længde: 13mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 203mm
Forlag: Aleph Book Company
Oplagsdato: 20 nov 2017
Forfatter(e): Jeet Thayil
Forfatter(e) Jeet Thayil

Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur

ISBN-13 9789386021038

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 512

Udgave

Længde 13mm

Bredde 127mm

Højde 203mm

Udg. Dato 20 nov 2017

Oplagsdato 20 nov 2017

Forlag Aleph Book Company

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