TY - BOOK AU - JEET THAYIL TI - BOOK OF CHOCOLATE SAINTS SN - 9789386021038 U1 - O-,3N592,B PY - 2017/// CY - NEW DELHI PB - ALEPH BOOK COMPANY KW - ENGLISH NOVEL KW - INDIAN ENGLISH NOVEL N2 - 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. 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. ER -