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"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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About the Author
William Dalrymple is the author of six previous acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; the best-selling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain’s most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.
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Product details
Series: Vintage Departures
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (June 14, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780307474469
ISBN-13: 978-0307474469
ASIN: 0307474461
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5.1 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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Nine Lives provides a wonderful down-to-Earth understanding of where India's diverse religious traditions are in the 21st century. Through in-depth interviews with facinating people Dalrymple gives readers a real look behind the curtain at what their lives, their beliefs and their faith mean.From Jain nun whose friend ritually starved herself, to a Tibetan Monk who took up arms to fight the Chinese, to a family of idol makers, to outcasts living in a cremation ground this book take us inside an alien world and offers significant insights.In the process we also see how the 21st century is forcing change on ancient traditions. We hear an artisan's concerns that his sons will not follow him, we hear how a dancer makes a living during the off-season as a laborer and prison guard and how mass media is homoganizing India's diverse religious traditions.Nine Lives offers a facinating and nuanced look into these worlds and is never a dull read.I had one problem however with the Kindle edition. Throughout the book Dalrymple uses hindi terms but always explains them in context. There's a glossery in the back but I found my Kindle did not allow me to read it, assuming that the last page of text was the end of the book. The only way I could see the glossery was to use the table of contents to go to the end notes and page back, it was very frustrating. But other than that it was an excellent read and I sincerely recommend it.
This is truly a wonderful book. So many (too many) respectable books on religion fail to ground their subject matter with the actual experiences of practitioners (i.e. real people). This is particularly true of academically oriented material - where a book on Hinduism (e.g.) will often provide an excellent historical or thematic account of the many traditions that fall under that umbrella term, but fail to anchor such ideas by focusing much attention on lived experience. Plutarch believed that the best history, history at its most meaningful, was biography because it provided windows into the lives of history's greatest figures - lives that we can learn from and from which we can better ourselves. While the goals of Plutarch and Dalrymple are admittedly not exactly parallel, they nevertheless share a basic and laudable belief in the meaningfulness of biographies in not just presenting history, but making it present - rich, meaningful and identifiable. I have used portions of this book in my classes on Indic religions with much success and this book thus remains one of the first, if not THE first book, I would recommend to someone interested in Indic religions. A book to be savored and shared.
I read this book in India about a year ago while on vacation. Since I write about India in my own fiction I often hope to pick up more insights from other writers. Dalrymple is one of my favorite writers, and this is one of my favorite books. The author explores the lives of nine individuals who have given their lives in one way or another to the pursuit of the spiritual and the sacred. The first one of the lives he explores is that of a Jain nun who struggles with the loss of her companion and contemplates suicide. That last person he interviews is a Baul, a member of a Bengali caste that has rejected the rigid life of Indian society. For over 500 years the Bauls have wandered the country, mostly North India and Bangladesh, singing their songs and living outside acceptable society. The man the author interviews is a blind Baul singer who talks about his life as a devotee. Especially moving is the story of a Buddhist monk who leaves Tibet during the invasion of the Chinese in 1954 and in India confronts his own prejudices and thinks deeply about what it means to be a devotee. This book moved me as few others have.
Read the book out in a weekend - was glad the author took the time to document several people who follow various religious paths in danger of being submerged by the homogeneity of the larger organized religions like Wahhabi Islam and orthodox Hinduism. While I was grateful that those interviewed shared their life stories all of which evoked more than a touch of pathos; I wondered about Mr Darymple profiting off them, but acknowledge a more respectful attitude towards those he encountered compared to his first book- In Xanadu- which I also enjoyed.A couple of the stories illustrated how the rigid, strait-laced Indian society fostered the extremes that people would go to express themselves- in the first and last stories, children of well-to-do families rejected the conventional `safe' path for the unknown- one embracing celibacy, although supposedly practising non-attachment, was devastated when the companion of 20 years died- and the other engaging in tantric-like Baul practices.Published in 2009, it documented well the devastation of HIV/AIDS on one family forced to continue in prostitution under the `tradition' of dedicating the young girls to Yellamma/becoming devadasis - applicable to pre-Mugal India, certainly not 21st century `Shining India'!The book was very informative about Sufism and illustrated well the devastation Partition had on the lives of ordinary Indians. The story about the Idol-maker reminded me of the part in Anil's Ghost where the final part of installation of the eyes is very sacred, but sadly that tradition is also under threat of the Mass-produced market. Interesting and informative too was the fact that the erotic images/sculptures on the Khujharo temples were illustrating Tantric practices prevalent when the temple was being built.
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