词条 | Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India |
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| name = Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India | title_orig = | translator = | image = Nine Lives In Search of the Sacred in Modern India.png | caption = | author = William Dalrymple | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | subject = Travel writing/religion | genre = Non-fiction | publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing | pub_date = 2009 | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print (Hardcover) | pages = | isbn = 978-1-4088-0061-4 | oclc= | preceded_by = The Last Mughal | followed_by = Return of a King }} Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India is a 2009 travel book by William Dalrymple. SummaryDalrymple's seventh book is about the lives of nine Indians, a Buddhist monk, a Jain nun, a lady from a middle-class family in Calcutta, a prison warden from Kerala, an illiterate goat herd from Rajasthan, and a devadasi among others, as seen during his Indian travels. The book explores the lives of nine such people, each of whom represent a different religious path in nine chapters.
For the launch of the book in India some of the characters in the book performed for the audience,[1] with one of character's Hari Das from Kerala leading the Theyyam troupe and Paban Das Baul from Bengal leading the Baul singers.[1] Critical responseThe book was published by Bloomsbury to great acclaim, The Observer remarking that it "ranks with the very finest travel writing".[2] On publication it went to the number one slot on the Indian non-fiction section best seller list.[3] Hirsh Sawhney, writing in The Guardian, admires the book's 'awareness of the world's innate cosmopolitanism' and 'remarkably diverse array of characters'. He calls Nine Lives a 'compelling and poignant' work, but believes that Nine Lives does not challenge the partitioning of the world into 'anachronistic, seemingly irreconcilable compartments' like the author's other works.[4] Brian Schofield in The Sunday Times acknowledges the power and humanity of Dalrymple's portraits, calling them the work of "a towering talent" but also remarks on its narrow focus.[5] In contrast, Pico Iyer, in TIME Magazine, praises the "powerful restraint and clarity" the book brings to "precisely the two subjects — India and faith — that cause most observers to fly off into cosmic vagueness or spleen. The result is a deeply respectful and sympathetic portrait."[6] The distinguished Sanskritist Wendy Doniger also raved about the book in a cover story for the Times Literary Supplement: "Dalrymple vividly evokes the lives of these men and women, with the sharp eye and good writing that we have come to expect of his extraordinary travel books about India.. A glorious mixture of journalism, anthropology, history, and history of religions, written in prose worthy of a good novel, not since Kipling has anyone evoked village India so movingly. Dalrymple can conjure up a lush or parched landscape with a single sentence."[7] The book was long listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2010.[8][9] It has received the 2010 Asia House Award for Asian Literature. References1. ^1 {{cite news|url =http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091101/jsp/graphiti/story_11679042.jsp|title =Spiritual journey|date =2009-11-01|accessdate =2009-11-20|publisher =The Telegraph, India}} 2. ^{{cite news|url =https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/04/nine-lives-william-dalrymple-review|title =Nine Lives by William Dalrymple|date =2009-10-04|accessdate =2009-10-28|publisher =Guardian| location=London| first=Ruaridh| last=Nicoll}} 3. ^{{cite news|url =http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/bestsellers/William-s-new-book-tops-bestseller-list/Article1-467856.aspx|title =William's new book tops bestseller list|date =2009-10-22|accessdate =2009-10-28|publisher =Hindustan Times}} 4. ^{{cite news|url =https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/24/nine-lives-william-dalrymple-review|title =A spiritual journey misses a few milestones|date =2009-10-24|accessdate =2009-10-30|publisher =Guardian| location=London| first=Hirsh| last=Sawhney}} 5. ^{{cite news|url =http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article6876306.ece|title =Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple|date =2009-10-18|accessdate =2009-10-30|publisher =Timesonline| location=London}} 6. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1933113,00.html | work=Time | date=2009-11-09 | accessdate=2010-05-20 | first=Pico | last=Iyer | title=William Dalrymple's Nine Lives: Into the Mystic}} 7. ^{{cite news| url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6977681.ece | work=The Times | location=London | title=Indias sacred extremes | first=Wendy | last=Doniger | date=2010-01-06 | accessdate=2010-05-20}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thesamueljohnsonprize.co.uk/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=24|title=The BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2010 Longlist|publisher=Samuel Johnson Prize}} 9. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/apr/22/samuel-johnson-prize-longlist | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Samuel Johnson prize longlist spans the globe | first=Michelle | last=Pauli | date=2010-04-22 | accessdate=2010-05-20}} External links{{DEFAULTSORT:Nine Lives}} 3 : 2009 non-fiction books|Indian travel books|21st-century Indian books |
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