Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

About the author

William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, Nine Lives. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage, the Hemingway Prize, the French Prix d'Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone Crossword Award and has three times been longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2012 he was appointed Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in Humanities at Princeton University. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.

Product details

• Authors: Dalrymple William
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.01.2016
• EAN: 9781408879818
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-7981-8
• Subjects: Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Biography and non-fiction prose