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The book of chocolate saints : a novel (Record no. 570444)
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| fixed length control field | 01694nam a2200205Ia 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250327s9999 xx 000 0 und d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789386021038 |
| Paper back/Hardbound | hbk |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.92 |
| Item number | THA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Thayil, Jeet |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The book of chocolate saints : a novel |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / Jeet Thayil |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st edition |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | New Delhi: Aleph book, |
| Year of publication | 2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 501 pages ; 23 cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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 Indias greatest living painter. At the age of sixty-six, Xavier, who has been living in New York, is getting ready to return to the land 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 soil like weeds or mushrooms or carnivorous new flowers, who arrived like meteors, burned bright for a season or two and vanished without a trace, journalists, conmen, murderers, alcoholics, addicts, artists, whores, society ladies, thugs—and are also given unforgettable (and sometimes unbearable) insights into love, madness, poetry, sex, painting, saints, death, God and the savagery that fuels all great art. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Fiction |
| Topical Term | India Social life and customs Fiction |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | English Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 4TH FLOOR, B WING | 27.03.2025 | 799.00 | 823.92 THA | 700484 | 27.03.2025 | English Books | ||||
| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 4TH FLOOR, B WING | 27.03.2025 | 799.00 | 823.92 THA | 700485 | 27.03.2025 | English Books |