Reviewsday: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram is first and foremost the story of a man on the run after escaping from prison in Australia, assuming a false identity and living in Bombay. The scope of the story is epic – every character is a study in culture, language and ethnicity; every location – from the tourist bars to the slums […]
Book Of The Month: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
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 […]
