Nine Lives
In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
An illiterate goatherd keeps alive a sacred epic that he alone he still knows by heart. A temple prostitute resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes her daughters into a trade she now regards as a holy calling. Nine people, nine lives, each one taking a different religious path. Exquisite and mesmerising, Nine Lives explores how traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the region's rapid change. A distillation of 25 years of exploring India and its religious traditions, Nine Lives, longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, is a modern Canterbury Tales.
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- ISBN: 978-1-4088-7819-4
- EAN: 9781408878194
- Produktnummer: 19740673
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm x D2.0 cm 211 g
- Gewicht: 211
Über den Autor
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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