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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
By William Dalrymple
$15.00
From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerising book that explores how traditional religions are observed in today’s India, revealing ways of life that we might otherwise never have known.
A middle-class woman from Calcutta finds unexpected fulfilment living as a Tantric in an isolated, skull-filled cremation ground . . . A prison warder from Kerala is worshipped as an incarnate deity for two months of every year . . . A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death . . . The twenty-third in a centuries-old line of idol makers struggles to reconcile with his son’s wish to study computer engineering . . . An illiterate goatherd keeps alive in his memory an ancient 200,000-stanza sacred epic . . . A temple prostitute, who resisted her own initiation into sex work, pushes her daughters into the trade she nonetheless regards as a sacred calling.
William Dalrymple tells these stories, among others, with expansive insight and a spellbinding evocation of remarkable circumstance, giving us a dazzling travelogue of both place and spirit .
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