Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India - Paperback

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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India - Paperback

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India - Paperback

by William Dalrymple
$22.00
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Book Overview

From the author of The Last Mughal, an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today.

In portraits of people we might otherwise never know William Dalrymple distills his twenty-five years of travel in India to explore the challenges faced by practitioners of traditional forms of faith in contemporary India. For two months a year, a man in Kerala divides his time between jobs as a prison warden and a well-builder and his calling as an incarnate deity. A temple prostitute watches her two daughters die from AIDS after entering a trade she regards as a sacred calling. A Jain nun recalls the pain of watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death.

Together, these tales reveal the resilience of individuals in the face of the relentless onslaught of modernity, the enduring legacy of tradition, and the hope and honor that can be found even in the most unlikely places.
ISBN9780307474469
Author William Dalrymple
PublisherKnopf Publishing Group
GenreBiography and Travel
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages304
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India - Paperback

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By William Dalrymple

About William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple is the author of nine books about India and the Islamic world, including Return of a King, which won the Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, PEN Hessell-Tiltman, and Duff Cooper Prizes. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the Guardian and is one of the founders and a codirector of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

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