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Shantaram
- ASIN : 0349117543
- Publisher : Abacus (24 March 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 944 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780349117546
- ISBN-13 : 978-0349117546
- Item Weight : 625 g
- Dimensions : 12.8 x 4.4 x 19.6 cm
- Country of Origin : United Kingdom
A convict from Australia flees to India using the false name Lin and discovers a new life with a shocking spectrum of diversity as colourful, dark, enchanting and chaotic as the land itself. Gregory David Roberts’ search for meaning, philosophy and love as a fugitive being hunted for many-a-crime in this historical fiction, stimulates the demons and the angels in the minds of all readers.
A man with a deceitful identity becomes Indian at heart as he begins his life in India, in the enigmatic world of Bombay slums. Unlike the frowns that the slums received from outside world, Lin discovers the wonderful connection that binds every man to another in the deepest of despair and hope, intense of the moments of love and hatred. Lin’s life as a normal slum dweller and his later entry to the underworld of Bombay is filled with layers of betrayal, love, danger, fear, all culminating in an eerie liberation towards the end. This book is a complex journey of a man’s passionate tale surprisingly extraordinary for a debut novel.
Shantaram tells the story of an escaped Australian convict who takes refuge in the slums of Mumbai. Summary Of The Book Lindsay arrives in Mumbai with a fake passport. He is an escaped Australian convict who was in the middle of a long term in prison for armed robbery. Lindsay does not plan to stay in India. He has carefully planned to proceed on to Germany. While he is taking in the sights of Mumbai, he befriends a guide named Prabaker. Lindsay then decides to stay on in Mumbai. Prabaker takes Lin to his home in a nearby village. Prabaker’s mother likes the quiet guest and she gives him the name Shantaram, which means A Man of Peace. Lin and Prabaker return to the city, but are robbed on the way. With no money left, Lin decides to settle down in the slums of Mumbai.
He escapes a long term in prison because of Khader Khan’s protection, and goes to Africa and Afghanistan on missions for him. He falls in love with an attractive Swiss-American expatriate Karla, who is enigmatic and does not allow him to get close. After the death of Khader Khan, Lin realises that his real identity is lost. He settles down in his new home and tries to find the meaning and purpose of life and love in the strange melting pot of Mumbai.Shantaram is the story of a man who tries to escape his past, only to get more deeply pulled into the world of crime and violence that he sought to escape. About Gregory David Roberts Gregory David Roberts is an Australian writer. Shantaram is his first novel. Gregory David Ro
As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.
Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—-this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.
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