Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

From the prize-winning author of White Mughals and City of Djinns, Nine Lives is a distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions - a modern Indian Canterbury Tales, which introduces us to characters and takes us deep into worlds we could never have imagined existed.

A Buddhist monk takes up warms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tiber - 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 to death.

Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. Exquisite and mesmerising, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple's first travel book in over a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change.

Format: Softback - Great condition

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Published: 2009

ISBN: 9781408801536