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Nine Lives : In Search of the Sacred in Modern India William Dalr
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- Modernism
- Publication Name
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- ISBN
- 9780307474469
- Book Title
- Nine Lives : in Search of the Sacred in Modern India
- Book Series
- Vintage Departures Ser.
- Item Length
- 7.9 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion
- Topic
- Mysticism, Religious, Eastern, Asia / India & South Asia
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Item Weight
- 8.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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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.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307474461
ISBN-13
9780307474469
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99608100
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nine Lives : in Search of the Sacred in Modern India
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mysticism, Religious, Eastern, Asia / India & South Asia
Publication Year
2011
Book Series
Vintage Departures Ser.
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Reviews
"A singular achievement. . . . A deeply respectful and sympathetic portrait of those modest souls seldom mentioned in the headlines." -Pico Iyer, Time "Not only a masterful text, but also an extaordinarily important work." - San Francisco Chronicle "Fascinating and sometimes painfully moving. . . . This is the India we seldom see, peopled by obscure people whose lives are made vivid by their eloquent troubles and reckless piety." - The New York Times Book Review "[This is] the age for writers like Mr. Dalrymple, who fall in with the rhythms and languages of foreign lands. Nine Lives shows us lives hidden almost entirely from Western readers. . . opening up the world in a compelling way." - Wall Street Journal "Informed, compassionate, and careful to place the emphasis where it belongs: on the extraordinary people whose stories [Dalrymple] conveys." - Harper's "Strikingly colorful. . . . [Dalrymple's] point-which he makes elegantly by quoting many voices-is that, as India hurtles toward modernity, it may be losing some of its soul." - The Washington Post "Luminous. . . . Consists of nine riveting and thickly reported tales of individual devotion, which together summon up a whole world and sometimes end with devastating twists. . . . Nine Lives will only enhance [Dalrymple's] reputation." The New Republic "Fulfills the premise that a master artist can make something very difficult look easy. . . . You don't have to know a thing about India to enjoy this book, but when you're done you will know and appreciate much more about its people and their various lives-of the body, of the spirit and of the heart." - The Seattle Times "Fascinating. . . . These might seem like exotic characters, but Dalrymple allows them to tell their own stories, and they emerge as deeply sympathetic and human." - Newsday "Triumphant. . . . Not only illuminates India's relationship with religion but casts the genre itself in a new light. . . . A wise and rewarding book fizzing with Dalrymple's signature erudition and lightness of touch. . . . The travel book of the year." - The Guardian (London) "An absolutely beautiful book, clean and honest and edifying and moving. . . . It's a delight." -Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love "A wonderful pageant of believers whose stories are as much about spirituality as about society."- Christian Science Monitor "Moving. . . His nine articulate individuals are from highly distinctive and unusual milieus, and they embody the tensions and ideals of the great Indian systems of belief in personal, often painful ways. Taken together, they easily subvert conventional notions about Indian religiosity and provide an excellent antidote to much of what one reads in English about Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam." - New York Review of Books "Not since Kipling has anyone evoked village India so movingly. . . . The book gives an answer to Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and those who would condemn all religions for the sake of the fanatical fringe." -Wendy Doniger, Times Literary Supplement "Straightforward reporting, clear writing and empathetic listening." - The Plain Dealer "An absorbing book. . . . Dalrymple is a lively, knowledgeable and sympathetic guide to this world of faith." - The Daily Telegraph "Exquisite. . . . William Dalrymple dazzles us with stories of how a deeper reality strokes the fire of life in the recesses of our souls. . . . By peering into the secret passages of their psyches, we learn more about our own self, our fantasies, our shadows, our longings, our hidden potential." -Deepak Chopra, "Nine Livesis not only a masterful text, but it is also an extraordinarily important book . . . Simply as stories, each discrete episode is an emotive and moving tale of how an individual found, or inherited, a path to spiritual dedication . . . But often, these nine lives capture larger issues or trends, beyond the specificity of each individual's story." -San Francisco Chronicle "Nine Livesfulfills the premise that a master artist can make something very difficult look easy. The transparent prose reminded me of the great American nonfiction writer Tracy Kidder's work . . . Even skeptical readers will be hard-pressed to ignore the great comfort and inspiration these practitioners of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam take from their daily worship. You don't have to know a thing about India to enjoy this book, but when you're done you will know and appreciate much more about its people and their various lives-of the body, of the spirit, and of the heart." -Seattle Times "Nine Livesis an absolutely beautiful book: honest, edifying, and moving. I love so much about it, but mostly I love how William Dalrymple has gotten out of the way of the story, letting the characters inhabit in their own voices every square inch of each page. It's a delight." -Elizabeth Gilbert, author ofEat, Pray, Love "Absorbing . . . The narratives Dalrymple unearths are fascinating and sometimes painfully moving, and he surrounds them with generous knowledge. This is the India we seldom see, populated by obscure people whose lives are made vivid by their eloquent troubles and reckless piety." -New York Times Book Review "In this exquisite book of extraordinary lives, we see that the sacred survives in India amidst all its contradictions and modernity. William Dalrymple dazzles us with stories of how a deeper reality stokes the fire of life in the recesses of our souls. These are stories of real people in postmodern India. By peering into the secret passages of their psyches, we learn more about our own self, our fantasies, our shadows, our longings, our hidden potential." -Deepak Chopra "William Dalrymple's triumphant return to travel writing not only illuminates India's relationship with religion but casts the genre itself in a new light . . . A wise and rewarding book fizzing with Dalrymple's signature erudition and lightness of touch . . . The travel book of the year." -The Guardian(UK) "Through the stories of nine people, told simply and powerfully, Dalrymple unpicks the diversity and complexity of religious belief and spiritual practice in the subcontinent, while underscoring the fragility of some of these unique traditions in a rapidly modernizing country. Like Chaucer'sThe Canterbury Tales, Nine Livespresents a wonderful pageant of believers whose stories are as much about spirituality as about society." -Christian Science Monitor "Nine Livesshows us lives hidden almost entirely from Western readers . . . Such books open up the world in a compelling way." -Wall Street Journal "Dalrymple vividly evokes the lives of these men and women, with the sharp eye and good writing that we have come to expect of his extraordinary books . . .Nine Livesis a glorious mixture of journalism, anthropology, history, and history of religions, written in prose worthy of a good novel . . . Not since Kipling has anyone evoked village India so movingly . . . The book gives an answer to Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and those who would condemn all religions for the sake of the fanatical fringe." -Wendy Doniger,The Times Li, "A singular achievement. . . . A deeply respectful and sympathetic portrait of those modest souls seldom mentioned in the headlines." --Pico Iyer, Time "Not only a masterful text, but also an extaordinarily important work." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Fascinating and sometimes painfully moving. . . . This is the India we seldom see, peopled by obscure people whose lives are made vivid by their eloquent troubles and reckless piety." -- The New York Times Book Review "[This is] the age for writers like Mr. Dalrymple, who fall in with the rhythms and languages of foreign lands. Nine Lives shows us lives hidden almost entirely from Western readers. . . opening up the world in a compelling way." -- Wall Street Journal "Informed, compassionate, and careful to place the emphasis where it belongs: on the extraordinary people whose stories [Dalrymple] conveys." -- Harper''s "Strikingly colorful. . . . [Dalrymple''s] point--which he makes elegantly by quoting many voices--is that, as India hurtles toward modernity, it may be losing some of its soul." -- The Washington Post "Luminous. . . . Consists of nine riveting and thickly reported tales of individual devotion, which together summon up a whole world and sometimes end with devastating twists. . . . Nine Lives will only enhance [Dalrymple''s] reputation." - The New Republic "Fulfills the premise that a master artist can make something very difficult look easy. . . . You don''t have to know a thing about India to enjoy this book, but when you''re done you will know and appreciate much more about its people and their various lives--of the body, of the spirit and of the heart." -- The Seattle Times "Fascinating. . . . These might seem like exotic characters, but Dalrymple allows them to tell their own stories, and they emerge as deeply sympathetic and human." -- Newsday "Triumphant. . . . Not only illuminates India''s relationship with religion but casts the genre itself in a new light. . . . A wise and rewarding book fizzing with Dalrymple''s signature erudition and lightness of touch. . . . The travel book of the year." -- The Guardian (London) "An absolutely beautiful book, clean and honest and edifying and moving. . . . It''s a delight." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love "A wonderful pageant of believers whose stories are as much about spirituality as about society."-- Christian Science Monitor "Moving. . . His nine articulate individuals are from highly distinctive and unusual milieus, and they embody the tensions and ideals of the great Indian systems of belief in personal, often painful ways. Taken together, they easily subvert conventional notions about Indian religiosity and provide an excellent antidote to much of what one reads in English about Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam." -- New York Review of Books "Not since Kipling has anyone evoked village India so movingly. . . . The book gives an answer to Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and those who would condemn all religions for the sake of the fanatical fringe." --Wendy Doniger, Times Literary Supplement "Straightforward reporting, clear writing and empathetic listening." -- The Plain Dealer "An absorbing book. . . . Dalrymple is a lively, knowledgeable and sympathetic guide to this world of faith." -- The Daily Telegraph "Exquisite. . . . William Dalrymple dazzles us with stories of how a deeper reality strokes the fire of life in the recesses of our souls. . . . By peering into the secret passages of their psyches, we learn more about our own self, our fantasies, our shadows, our longings, our hidden potential." --Deepak Chopra, "A singular achievement. . . . A deeply respectful and sympathetic portrait of those modest souls seldom mentioned in the headlines." --Pico Iyer, Time "Not only a masterful text, but also an extaordinarily important work." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Fascinating and sometimes painfully moving. . . . This is the India we seldom see, peopled by obscure people whose lives are made vivid by their eloquent troubles and reckless piety." -- The New York Times Book Review "[This is] the age for writers like Mr. Dalrymple, who fall in with the rhythms and languages of foreign lands. Nine Lives shows us lives hidden almost entirely from Western readers. . . opening up the world in a compelling way." -- Wall Street Journal "Informed, compassionate, and careful to place the emphasis where it belongs: on the extraordinary people whose stories [Dalrymple] conveys." -- Harper''s "Strikingly colorful. . . . [Dalrymple''s] point--which he makes elegantly by quoting many voices--is that, as India hurtles toward modernity, it may be losing some of its soul." -- The Washington Post "Luminous. . . . Consists of nine riveting and thickly reported tales of individual devotion, which together summon up a whole world and sometimes end with devastating twists. . . . Nine Lives will only enhance [Dalrymple''s] reputation." - The New Republic "Fulfills the premise that a master artist can make something very difficult look easy. . . . You don''t have to know a thing about India to enjoy this book, but when you''re done you will know and appreciate much more about its people and their various lives--of the body, of the spirit and of the heart." -- The Seattle Times "Fascinating. . . . These might seem like exotic characters, but Dalrymple allows them to tell their own stories, and they emerge as deeply sympathetic and human." -- Newsday "Triumphant. . . . Not only illuminates India''s relationship with religion but casts the genre itself in a new light. . . . A wise and rewarding book fizzing with Dalrymple''s signature erudition and lightness of touch. . . . The travel book of the year." -- The Guardian (London) "An absolutely beautiful book, clean and honest and edifying and moving. . . . It''s a delight." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love "A wonderful pageant of believers whose stories are as much about spirituality as about society."-- Christian Science Monitor "Moving. . . His nine articulate individuals are from highly distinctive and unusual milieus, and they embody the tensions and ideals of the great Indian systems of belief in personal, often painful ways. Taken together, they easily subvert conventional notions about Indian religiosity and provide an excellent antidote to much of what one reads in English about Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam." -- New York Review of Books "Not since Kipling has anyone evoked village India so movingly. . . . The book gives an answer to Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and those who would condemn all religions for the sake of the fanatical fringe." --Wendy Doniger, Times Literary Supplement "Straightforward reporting, clear writing and empathetic listening." -- The Plain Dealer "An absorbing book. . . . Dalrymple is a lively, knowledgeable and sympathetic guide to this world of faith." -- The Daily Telegraph "Exquisite. . . . William Dalrymple dazzles us with stories of how a deeper reality strokes the fire of life in the recesses of our souls. . . . By peering into the secret passages of their psyches, we learn more about our own self, our fantasies, our shadows, our longings, our hidden potential." --Deepak Chopra
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