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- Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
- ISBN: 0786168765
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101506785
- Release Date: October 1, 2006
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #237882 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #29538 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #4612 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Shantaram"Browse more products related to "Gregory David Roberts"Review"[T]hrillingly undomesticated....A sensational read." (starred review) "[A]n elegantly written, page-turning blockbuster....Roberts is a sure storyteller, capable of passages of precise beauty..., splendidly evoking an India few outsiders know." (starred review) First lineIt took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. Publisher's noteHaving escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug mafia kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, forges bonds with fellow exiles, and finds love with an elusive woman. AnnotationGregory David Roberts leaned heavily on his own life to tell the story of a most unusual man who was, for 10 years, one of Australia's Most Wanted. A heroin addict in prison for armed robbery, the man known as Lindsay (Lin) escapes and lands in Bombay in the 1980s, where his name becomes Shantaram. There he hides out from the law, learns the local language, opens a medical clinic for the poor, and falls in love with a woman named Karla, eventually fighting as a guerrilla in Afghanistan against the Russians. A bestseller in Australia, SHANTARAM is a story of revolution and activism, addiction and redemption, adventure and romance. In addition to an addict, a prisoner, and a soldier, the author has been an actor, a singer in a rock band, a counterfeiter, and a gun runner, and has written the libretto for an opera. He wrote SHANTARAM in prison, over the course of many years--a manuscript, as he describes it in an afterword to the novel, "written in blood and tears and exultation..., stained and streaked with my blood." If You Enjoy "Shantaram (Audio)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Shantaram (Audio)" by Gregory David Roberts (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! General Bestsellers
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