At once a high-kicking, eye-gouging adventure, a love saga and a savage yet tenderly lyrical fugitive vision.' Time Out. It's a profound tribute to his willpower. Amazingly, Roberts wrote Shantaram three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions. Then, in case anyone thought he was slacking, he acted in Bollywood and fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. He found time to learn Hindi and Marathi, fall in love, and spend time being worked over in an Indian jail. The name comes into play when Lin, who is actually using the false name Lindsay Ford (we never learn his real name), meets his friend Prabakers mother.
There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, forger and street soldier. 'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. After leaving prison, Roberts was able to finally finish and publish his.
Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.Ī novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. During his second stay in Australian prison, he began writing Shantaram.The story takes the reader from the slums, to an Indian prison, to the luxury of a gangster's life and even to wilds of Afghanistan. A book about a man who falls in love with a city, Bombay.A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld.
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