Book Review: Nine Lives
'Before you drink from a skull,' said Manisha Ma Bhairavi, 'you must first find the right corpse.'A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet and 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. The singer of Epics - one of the last bards tells his story of The Epic of Pabuji tells his story. Nine people, Nine Lives: each one taking a different religious path, each one having unforgettable story to tell.
William Dalrymple's Nine Lives delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the continuity of ancient traditions. People and Faith forms the connecting thread in this book that loosely ties the nine lives together. The author cautiously distances himself and allows the characters to tell their individual stories that are part tragic and part overlooked but definitely beyond mundane.
Inside the pages of Nine Lives, in an identifiable Dalrymple style of narration that is equally gripping and fast, William Dalrymple presents a sensitive account of love, loss and redemption.
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Beautiful and exciting. I had received the copy from MySmartPrice. Thank you Ranjan for giving me this opportunity. You can buy this book at amazon or at flipkart in case you live in India.
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