The Saint of Bright Doors

 The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera, 356 pages.

Fetter lives in a world where near-misses at chosen ones are a dime a dozen. He himself was raised as a weapon to kill his own father, a holy, almost divine, figure who's cult stretches across the continent and reaches to the city of Luriat. That is the kind of destiny that gives a man a lot to talk about in group therapy, especially after he chooses to reject his destiny. Here he comes in contact with revolutionaries and radicals, and is pulled into conflicts both political and metaphysical

This book is very hard to describe, partially because there is a lot of craft in how it starts slowly making more sense as you read, satisfactorily answering questions you didn't even know were questions yet to create a cohesive and layered whole. This book is complicated and engrossing, and I found myself very invested in it. It is also sometimes pretty difficult to follow, especially before you know much about how the world works. It reminded me a lot of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (by a fellow Sri Lankan author), but on a more mythic scale. I would definitely recommend this book for someone looking for political intrigue with a mythological twist.