Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

William Dalrymple

Bloomsbury

2013

285 páginas

9h 30m

ISBN-13: 9781408846148

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 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 region's rapid change. A distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions, Nine Lives is a modern Indian Canterbury Tales. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nine-lives-9781408800614/#sthash.EZjb3ykP.dpuf