The Saint of Bright Doors is a 2023 fantasy novel by Sri Lankan author Vajra Chandrasekera.
[1] The novel follows the story of a man trained from a young age to assassinate a prominent spiritual leader, in a fictional city with supernatural "bright doors".
[7] Aigner Loren Wilson of Lightspeed identified themes of "generational, religious, and political trauma" in the novel.
There is so much going on here, and yet it all fits together perfectly – book of the year material, no question," adding that it "deploys some truly huge ideas in how it plays with the writing and rewriting of history and culture" and that had a striking "commitment to the revolutionary impulse and societal critique.
"[12] Aigner Loren Wilson of Lightspeed described the novel a "a slow beautiful burn of wonderful city descriptions and magical mysteries" that wasn't "as dark as I was expecting.