Ebook {Epub PDF} Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel by Gregory David Roberts, set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear/5(10K). Gregory David Roberts retired from public life in to devote time to his family and new writing projects. His new novel, The Mountain Shadow, will be released in Customer reviews. out of 5 stars. out of 5. 7, global ratings. 5 star 71% 4 star /5(K). Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author, most noted for his novel Shantaram. He was a heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison /5.

Title: Shantaram: A Novel Author(s): Gregory David Roberts ISBN: / (USA edition) Publisher: St. Martin's Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA Amazon AU. Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David bltadwin.ru Roberts was sentenced to 19 years imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building-society branches, credit unions, and shops he had committed while addicted to heroin. Gregory David Roberts retired from public life in to devote time to his family and new writing projects. His new novel, The Mountain Shadow, will be released in Customer reviews. out of 5 stars. out of 5. 7, global ratings. 5 star 71% 4 star.

The real-life adventures of 'Shantaram' Gregory David Roberts, who went from being an idealistic philosophy student and activist, to becoming a heroin addict. Gregory David Roberts, the author of Shantaram and its sequel, The Mountain Shadow, was born in Melbourne, Australia. Sentenced to nineteen years in prison for a series of armed robberies, he escaped and spent ten of his fugitive years in Bombay—where he established a free medical clinic for slum-dwellers, and worked as a counterfeiter, smuggler, gunrunner, and street soldier for a branch of the Bombay mafia. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts is a huge yet hard-to-put-down novel. The blurb says it is based on the life of the author, but is also part fiction. Several seemingly unnatural events corroborate the fact.