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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.
• Published: March 2005
• Imprint: Abacus
• ISBN: 0349117543
• Edition: Paperback
• Format: B
• Extent: 944pp
• Classification: Fiction
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