The Saint of Bright Doors
Book description
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant.
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty…
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2 authors picked The Saint of Bright Doors as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Chandrasekera first came onto my radar when I read a brilliant short story of his in 2021.
When I learned he had a novel coming out this year, I immediately preordered despite vague doubts about his ability to extend his meta, liminal brand of short fiction into novel form. Well, I’m pleased (and annoyed and envious) to admit I was wrong.
In The Saint of Bright Doors, a boy named Fetter is raised by his mother to one day kill his father, who is a saint not in the figurative sense of the word but in the has-godly-powers sense…
It isn’t often that a book makes me actually exclaim aloud while I’m reading it. The turns of plot and turns of phrase in this novel are awe-inspiring.
It’s a fantasy novel set in a place that is just as weird and unhinged as the actual countries, cities, and belief systems that human beings have created. This is one of those books that makes me want to level up as a writer – and I can’t even be jealous about it, because I’m just so happy it exists in the world.
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