Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

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A&C Black, Jun 7, 2010 - Travel - 304 pages
'Nine Lives' is a distillation of 25 years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions and how they have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change.

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About the author (2010)

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 Young British Writer of the Year Award. The Age of Kali won the French Prix D'Astrolabe and White Mughals won the Wolfson Prize for History 2003 and the Scottish Book of the Year Prize. His most recent book, The Last Mughal, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. Hi lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Dehli.

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