Deze epische saga volgt de reis van een man die uit een Australische gevangenis ontsnapte en verdwaalde in de bruisende straten van Bombay. Het verhaal weeft een meeslepend mozaïek van avontuur, vriendschap en de zoektocht naar identiteit te midden van een exotisch landschap. Dompel jezelf onder in een verhaal vol wendingen, waar de persoonlijke strijd om te overleven verweven is met het begrijpen van de complexiteit van het Indiase leven.
In 1978 Gregory David Roberts committed a series of robberies while adducted to heroin, and was sentenced to nineteen years in prison. After two years, he escaped from a maximum-security prison in broad daylight, and became Australia s most wanted man. Hiding in Mumbai, he established a medical clinic for slum-dwellers, and worked as a counterfeiter, smuggler and gunrunner for one of the most charismatic branches of the Mumbai mafia. Shantaram based on this ten-year period of Gregory David Roberts life is a superbly written and gripping novel, and an authentic evocation of Mumbai life.
Эта преломленная в художественной форме исповедь человека, который сумел выбраться из бездны и уцелеть, протаранила все списки бестселлеров и заслужила восторженные сравнения с произведениями лучших писателей нового времени, от Мелвилла до Хемингуэя
Nel 1978, il giovane studente di filosofia e attivista politico Greg Roberts viene condannato a 19 anni di prigione per una serie di rapine a mano armata. È diventato eroinomane dopo la separazione dalla moglie e la morte della loro bambina. Ma gli anni che seguono vedranno Greg scappare da una prigione di massima sicurezza, vagare per anni per l'Australia come ricercato, vivere in nove paesi differenti, attraversarne quaranta, fare rapine, allestire a Bombay un ospedale per indigenti, recitare nei film di Bollywood, stringere relazioni con la mafia indiana, partire per due guerre, in Afghanistan e in Pakistan, tra le fila dei combattenti islamici, tornare in Australia a scontare la sua pena. E raccontare la sua vita in un romanzo epico di più di mille pagine.
A profound, unputdownable, epic thriller set in Mumbai - a standalone novel
and a sequel to the international bestseller SHANTARAM The first glimpse of
the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from
the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's
improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode,
with my friends, into the end of everything. Shantaram introduced millions of
readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian
fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In
The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a
Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set
of rules. It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin
lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his
soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from
a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many
of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become
entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy
man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life.
But Lin can't leave the Island City: Karla, and a fatal promise, won't let him
go.
