Like Shantaram, this book has an adorable character you just fall in love with. It’s a profound tribute to his willpower… At once a high-kicking, eye-gouging adventure, a love saga and a savage yet tenderly lyrical fugitive vision. A prayer for Owen Meany was also one of those books I had zero expectations (frankly, the cover made the book seem so boring) but damn, what a fantastic book. Then, in case anyone thought he was slacking, he acted in Bollywood and fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan… Amazingly, Roberts wrote Shantaram three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions. He found time to learn Hindi and Marathi, fall in love, and spend time being worked over in an Indian jail. Shantaram follows the story of 'Lindsay Ford' known to most as Lin but real name Gregory David Roberts a convicted armed robber who breaks out of prison in Victoria, Australia and goes on the. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, forger and street soldier. SHANTARAM by Gregory David Roberts RELEASE DATE: Oct. ‘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. Gregory David Roberts Shantaram is a mesmerizing novel about a man on the run who becomes.

‘A gigantic, jaw-dropping, grittily authentic saga’ Daily Mail Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees. Shantaram Audiobook By Gregory David Roberts cover art. ‘A literary masterpiece… at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny… it has the grit and pace of a thriller’ Daily Telegraph The book covers so many issues in loving detail: Bombay, Asia, the expatriate experience, poverty, crime, heroin addiction, love, betrayal, redemption. 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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