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Author Roberts, Gregory David.

Title Shantaram : a novel / Gregory David Roberts.

Edition First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, [2005]
©2003
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1475449~S1
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Description 933 pages ; 21 cm
Note Originally published: Scribe Publications, 2003.
Summary 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.
Note "November 2005"--Title page verso.
Subject Australians -- Foreign countries -- Fiction.
Fugitives from justice -- Fiction.
Australians -- India -- Fiction.
Criminals -- Fiction.
Clinics -- Fiction.
Mumbai (India) -- Fiction.
Genre Autobiographical fiction.
Adventure fiction.
ISBN 9780312330521
0312330537
9780312330538
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SRP 2012
SRP 2012 X
August 20 2012
SRP 2012 REVIEW: This is a hefty book, at more than 900 pages, but this adventure story based on the author's life is gripping and the story will go by quickly. I love the exploration of love and betrayal, violence and crime, and Roberts teaches us that nothing is ever as simple as it may appear. This guy has been through hell and come back - after escaping from a maximum security prison in Australia, the former heroin addict flees to India, where he lives in a slum as a makeshift doctor, then joins the local mafia before heading to Afghanistan to fight in the war against the Russians.
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