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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
William Dalrymple
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Description for Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
Paperback. Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HRAX; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 216.
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this ... Read more
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408878194
SKU
V9781408878194
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99-5
About William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. City of Djinns won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. The Age of Kali won the French Prix D'Astrolabe, Return ... Read more
Reviews for Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
'His most ambitious yet, taking the reader into lurid, scarcely imaginable worlds of mysticism ... Dalrymple has an inimitable way of conjuring the Indian landscape'
Financial Times
'This is travel writing at its best. I hope it sparks a revival'
Observer
`Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite, warm and open-hearted ... A towering talent'
The Times ... Read more
Financial Times
'This is travel writing at its best. I hope it sparks a revival'
Observer
`Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite, warm and open-hearted ... A towering talent'
The Times ... Read more