Ebook {Epub PDF} Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

 · 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 Brand: St. Martin's Publishing Group. Shantaram: A Novel by Roberts, Gregory David. Used; very good; paperback; Condition Very Good ISBN 10 ISBN 13 Seller. Books End. Seller rating: This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. Syracuse, New York. 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).

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. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, forger and street soldier. He found time to learn Hindi and Marathi, fall in love, and spend. Shantaram () caused a sensation on its publication because the novel's events are based on the life of its author Gregory David Roberts, an Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from jail and fled to Bombay, India, becoming one of Australia's most wanted www.doorway.ru novel's protagonist, who goes by the false name "Lindsay Ford," makes a home in the Bombay slums and. Propaganda of David Gregory Roberts is the only fiction of the story. The title of "Shantaram," or "blessed man of peace," is bestowed upon Lin during a long visit to his close friend Probaker's Maharashtrian village. In the prisons of Australia and India, Lin stabs men and brutally beats them, yet they never die.

Shantaram: A Novel by Roberts, Gregory David. Used; very good; paperback; Condition Very Good ISBN 10 ISBN 13 Seller. Books End. Seller rating. 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. 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 and fled to India where he lived for ten years.