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Nine Lives Author: William Dalrymple

ISBN: 9781408878194 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 304 Published: 27 July 2016 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.1 Description: Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India

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 herself to death.

Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

About the Author

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 Yo...

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