Description: I RECEIVED THIS BOOK AS A GIFT SHORTLY AFTER ITS RELEASE DAY IN 2003. IT HAS BEEN SITTING ON THE SAME SHELF ONCE I FINISHED READING IT IT IS IN GREAT CONDITION, WITH A SLIGHT YELLOWING OF THE PAGES, AND MINOR CORNER FRAYING. WHOEVER PURCHASES THE BOOK I WILL SHIP IT FREE VIA USPS GROUND ADVANTAGE. THANKS FOR LOOKING AND HAVE A GREAT DAY!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“It 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.” An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere. 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.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Format: Trade Paperback
Personalize: No
Item Width: 5.6 in
Number of Pages: 944 Pages
Item Length: 8.1 in
Item Height: 1.7 in
Topic: Action & Adventure, Biographical, Crime
Vintage: Yes
Era: 1990s
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Ex Libris: No
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Publication Year: 2005
Item Weight: 26.1 Oz
Book Title: Shantaram : a Novel
Intended Audience: Adults
Author: Gregory David Roberts
Original Language: English
Narrative Type: Fiction
Literary Movement: Modernism
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Inscribed: No
Signed: No
Genre: Fiction
Personalized: No
Type: Novel
