![]() ![]() At once a high-kicking, eye-gouging adventure, a love saga and a savage yet tenderly lyrical fugitive vision.' Time Out It's a profound tribute to his willpower. Amazingly, Roberts wrote Shantaram three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions. Then, in case anyone thought he was slacking, he acted in Bollywood and fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. He found time to learn Hindi and Marathi, fall in love, and spend time being worked over in an Indian jail. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, forger and street soldier. '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. 'A gigantic, jaw-dropping, grittily authentic saga' Daily Mail it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily Telegraph ![]() at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny. 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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