Dalrymple returns with ‘Nine Lives’

Spicezee Bureau

New Delhi: Renowned writer William Dalrymple’s latest book ‘Nine Lives’ is a fascinating account of the search for the sacred in modern India.

Published by Penguin Books India, the book deals with nine characters, whose mesmerizing and unforgettable stories are recounted with almost Biblical simplicity by the author.

A distillation of twenty-five years of traveling around and observing India, ‘Nine Lives’ takes us deep into worlds we would never have imagined existed, even as it explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region’s rapid change.

Dalrymple’s most recent book, The Last Mughal, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Vodafone Crossword Award for non-fiction and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize.