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 ...
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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.
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This book has a diversity of interesting lifelike characters and events which take place in Bombay.The writer is quick to engage the reader and endear the reader full time.I was happy to read the second book,to see what happened to the characters,and continue the story. It was a memorable reading experience.
TENLEY T
Jan 26, 2013
a wonderful read!!
an incredible story,even more so because it's true! my daughter and I both agreed,if even HALF of it is true,it's an amazing story,I recommend it to anyone
Donovan S
Oct 20, 2011
Just like a mortgage, slow start, fast finish!
Took me a while to really get into it, not as fast a starter as White Tiger, but once it gets rolling along, what a story! Great book. Well worth sticking with the first 100 pages.
BreaLind
Jan 20, 2011
This is one of the greatest books I've read in a really, really long time. I was captivated from the moment I opened the front cover. A great book for both men and women. The writing is excellent and the story is even better.
SKULL
May 21, 2009
STUNNING STORY
Excellent prose. Fine story telling,an epic life captured with eloquence. A riveting tale not easily put down.
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