It takes the average reader 8 hours and 27 minutes to read The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
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...
The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil is 496 pages long, and a total of 126,976 words.
This makes it 167% the length of the average book. It also has 155% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 33 minutes to read The Book of Chocolate Saints aloud.
The Book of Chocolate Saints is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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