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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple Barefoot On Sal Mal Lane isWinner of the 2010 Asia House Award for Asian Literature Longlisted for Samuel Johnson Prize A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet then spends the rest of his life 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 herself to death. Nine people, Nine lives; each one a different religious path, each one