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Title
:

Shantaram

Author
:
Gregory David Roberts
ISBN
:
9780349117546
Book No
:
7435
Status
:
Available
Shelf
:
FI-R17S6
Category
:
Fiction
Subcategory
:
Fiction-General
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Summary

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.