Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Minor marks on foredges. Pages have started to sunned.

Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts.

In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building-society branches, credit unions, and shops he had committed while addicted to heroin. In July 1980, he escaped from Victoria's maximum-security prison in broad daylight, thereby becoming one of Australia's most wanted men for what turned out to be the next ten years.

For most of this period, he lived in Bombay. He set up a free health clinic in the slums, acted in Bollywood movies, worked for the Bombay mafia as a forger, counterfeiter, and smuggler and, as a gun-runner, resupplied a unit of Mujahideen guerrilla fighters in Afghanistan. This is the setting of Shantaram.