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Shantaram

This debut novel is based on the author's dramatic and extraordinary true story of life on the run in the Bombay underworld. more
Author:
Gregory David Roberts
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Edition:
New edition
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Short description

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

Long description

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.

Product details

Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown & Company
ISBN:
9780349117546
Publication date:
March 2005
Length:
197mm
Width:
129mm
Thickness:
44mm
Weight:
666g
Edition:
New edition
Readership:
General
Prizes:
Shortlisted for the Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice (2003)
Audience:
General
Pages:
944

Review

A literary masterpiece ... at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny ... it has the grit and pace of a thriller DAILY TELEGRAPH Powerful and original ... a remarkable achievement SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Extraordinarily vivid ... a gigantic, jaw-dropping, grittily authentic saga DAILY MAIL A publishing phenomenon SUNDAY TIMES

awards

Shortlisted for Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2003. Shortlisted for Commonwealth Writer's Best First Book for the Pacific Region 2004.

additional information

Gregory David Roberts was born in Melbourne in 1952. After surviving the events dealt with in Shantaram, he was captured in Germany in 1990 and eventually extradited to Australia. On completing his prison sentence, he established a small multi-media company and is now a full-time writer. He is currently working on The Mountain Shadow, a sequel to Shantaram, being the continuing adventures of Lin, Karla and all the other characters still standing at the end of Shantaram, and with a host of new characters and locations in Europe and West Asia.

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  Excellent read
Reviewed by Danie Jansen van rensburg from East London, South Africa on 25 September 2007
1737 of 3459 people found the following review helpful:

Based on the life of the author. About an escaped convict from Australia hiding in India. Interesting story. Some parts will make you feel like crying, and at other times you'll laugh out load. I do find India very interesting though.

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  Absolutely Brilliant, A Masterpiece!
Reviewed by Mr Casey Christie from Joburg, South Africa,I Read the book in India. on 06 July 2008
1325 of 2645 people found the following review helpful:

Without a doubt Shantaram is the greatest book I have ever had the privilage of reading, you will laugh, you will cry, your jaw will drop and your heart will soar! Thank you Gregory David Roberts, your magnum opus touched my life in a very profound way! The only negative is that this 950 page book is just too short, An absolute tour de force!! A sequel please...

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  Absolutely brilliant!
Reviewed by Terry from White River, South Africa on 24 May 2012
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

Quite possibly the best book I have ever read.

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