William Dalrymple (1965-)

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Nine lives

En insiktsfull utforskning av traditionella religioner i dagens Indien, där livsöden vävs samman med det heliga. Berättelser om Tantriska praktiker, gudomlig tillbedjan och kulturella traditioner bjuder in till en fascinerande resa genom tro och liv.

• Nine lives: ─ in search of the sacred in modern India skildrar indiska traditioner.

• Berättelser om tro och liv i dagens Indien.

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From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing 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 fulfillment 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. Inb med skyddsomslag, 284 sidor. Bloomsbury (London, 2009). Språk: engelska. Gulnad inlaga.

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