威廉.達爾林普(William Dalrymple)
蘇格蘭人,於佛斯海灣﹝Firth of Forth﹞的海邊長大。劍橋大學畢業後,曾為《獨立報》﹝Independent﹞專欄作家。年方二十二歲,便出版了暢銷又備受好評的《在薩那都》﹝In Xanadu﹞,此書於一九九○年獲得《約克郡郵報》﹝Yorksire Post﹞的最佳處女作品獎,以及蘇格蘭藝術協會春季圖書獎;並曾入圍John Llewelyn Rhys紀念獎。一九八九年他遷居德里,在當地居住四年,位本書蒐集資料並為《星期天通訊》﹝Sunday Correspondent﹞、《觀察者》﹝Spectator﹞、《觀察家》﹝Observer﹞以及《週日時報》﹝Sunday Times﹞等報紙撰稿。曾獲《週日時報》年度英國青年作家獎。
威廉.達爾林普與藝術家奧莉維亞.弗來瑟﹝Olivia Fraser﹞結婚,目前在倫敦和愛丁堡兩地居住。
发表于2024-10-31
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图书标签: 印度 宗教 文化 Dalrymple religion 游记 散文、杂文、游记 英文原版
From the prize-winning author of White Mughals and City of Djinns, Nine Lives is a distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions – a modern Indian Canterbury Tales which introduces us to characters and takes us deep into worlds we could never have imagined existed.
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet – then spends years 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 to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfilment living as a tantric in a skull-filled hut in a remote cremation ground. A prison warden from Kerala becomes, for two months of the year, a temple dancer and is worshipped as an incarnate deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison.
An illiterate goat herd from Rajasthan keeps alive an ancient 4000-line sacred epic that he, virtually alone, still knows by heart. A devadasi – or temple prostitute – initially resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes both her daughters into a trade she now regards as a sacred calling.
Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. Exquisite and mesmerising, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple’s first travel book in a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region’s rapid change.
世间有百种形态,皆是人生
评分讀過Introduction,The Daughters of Yellamma,和與未來研究方向有關的The Lady Twilight和The Song of the Blind Minstrel。William Dalrymple真是個好寫手,很精彩。另,印度教的Tara跟佛教的完全不一樣啊!
评分讀過Introduction,The Daughters of Yellamma,和與未來研究方向有關的The Lady Twilight和The Song of the Blind Minstrel。William Dalrymple真是個好寫手,很精彩。另,印度教的Tara跟佛教的完全不一樣啊!
评分世间有百种形态,皆是人生
评分世间有百种形态,皆是人生
Nine Lives 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书