Nine Lives William Dalrymple

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Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India

Nine Lives Summary

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple

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 day. LONGLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

Nine Lives Reviews

'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 *
`A blend of travelogue, ethnography, oral history and reportage, Nine Lives is compelling and poignant' * Guardian *

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 of a King won the 2015 Hemingway Prize, and White Mughals won the Wolfson Prize for History 2003 and the Scottish Book of the Year Prize. His most recent book, The Last Mughal, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. Hi lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Dehli.

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Sku

GOR009968512

ISBN 13

9781408878194

ISBN 10

1408878194

Title

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple

Author

William Dalrymple

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Year published

2016-05-19

Number of pages

304

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