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This debut novel is based on the author's dramatic and extraordinary true story of life on the run in the Bombay underworld.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    In 1978, gifted student and writer Greg Roberts turned to heroin when his marriage collapsed, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Caught and convicted, he was given a nineteen-year sentence. After two years, he escaped from a maximum- security prison, spending the next ten years on the run as Australia's most wanted man. Hiding in Bombay, he established a medical clinic for slum- dwellers, worked in the Bollywood film industry and served time in the notorious Arthur Road prison. He was recruited by one of the most charismatic branches of the Bombay mafia for whom he worked as a forger, counterfeiter, and smuggler, and fought alongside a unit of mujaheddin guerrilla fighters in Afghanistan. His debut novel, SHANTARAM, is based on this ten-year period of his life in Bombay. The result is an epic tale of slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison torture, mafia gang wars and Bollywood films. A gripping adventure story, SHANTARAM is also a superbly written meditation on good and evil and an authentic evocation of Bombay life.

  • Play

    A novel of high adventure great storytelling and moral purpose based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. '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. There he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia working as a money launderer forger and street soldier. He found time to learn Hindi and Marathi fall in love and spend time being worked over in an Indian jail. 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. 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.' Time Out

  • Blackwell

    * A publishing sensation: a stunning novel based on the author's dramatic and extraordinary true story of life on the run in the Bombay underworld * 'A literary masterpiece ... it has the grit and pace of a thriller' DAILY TELEGRAPH A novel of...

  • BookDepository

    Shantaram : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9780349117546 : : 01 Apr 2005 : A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld.

  • 0349117543
  • 9780349117546
  • Gregory David Roberts
  • 24 March 2005
  • Abacus
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 944
  • New edition
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