The Book of Chocolate Saints

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, re ...

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 fin