Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9781408801536
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From the prize-winning author White Mughals and City of Djinns, Nine Lives is a distillation of tewnty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions, a modern India Cabterbury Tales, which introduces us to characters and takes us deep into worlds we could never have imagines existed.
A Buddhists 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 painting the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death.
Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. Exquisite and mesmerizing, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple's first travel book in over a decade explores how traditional forms religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change.
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