Gregory David Roberts SHANTARAM Gregory David Roberts brilliant debut novel SHANTARAM is an international publishing sensation that has sold over a million copies in the English language and has been published in close to forty languages, becoming a bestseller in many of them. Film rights were acquired by Warner Brothers in a major deal, with Johnny Depps Infinitum Nihil producing. Roberts is currently completing THE MOUNTAIN SHADOW, the sequel to SHANTARAM, in which the epic quest of Lin continues. Roberts also writes screenplays, poetry and short stories. Greg Roberts was once Australias most wanted man. Having escaped from a maximum security prison in broad daylight, he made his way to Bombay. There he set up a first-aid clinic in a slum, worked in the Bollywood film industry and served time in the notorious Arthur Road Prison. He worked as a forger, counterfeiter, gunrunner and smuggler, and fought the Soviet occupiers alongside a gang leader in Afghanistan. Ultimately, his spiritual journey led him to understand that he needed to accept responsibility for his fate before he could move forward with his life. He returned to prison to finish his sentence and spent two years in solitary confinement. Shantaram People Magazine - Critics Choice: In the spirit of Charles Dickens, Roberts (who wrote the novel after he was rearrested in 1990 and sent to serve the remaining seven years of his sentence) has created an expansive work, encompassing a large and disparate cast of characters, subjects and situations....inspired storytelling. Pat Conroy: SHANTARAM is a novel of the first order, a work of extraordinary art, a thing of exceptional beauty. If someone asked me what the book was about, I would have to say everything, every thing in the world. Gregory David Roberts does for Bombay what Lawrence Durrell did for Alexandria, what Melville did for the South Seas, and what Thoreau did for Walden Pond: He makes it an eternal player in the literature of the world. Publishers Weekly: A sensational read. Washington Post Book World: [A] sprawling, intelligent novel…full of vibrant characters…the exuberance of his prose is refreshing… Roberts brings us through Bombays slums and opium houses, its prostitution dens and ex-pat bars, saying, You come now. And we follow. New York Times: Few stand out quite like SHANTARAM … nothing if not entertaining. Sometimes a big story is its own best reward. USA Today: Vivid, entertaining. Its visceral, cinematic descriptive beauty truly impresses. Elle: Utterly unique, absolutely audacious, and wonderfully wild, SHANTARAM is sure to catch even the most fantastic of imaginations off guard. Daily Telegraph: A literary masterpiece . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller. Daily Mail: Extraordinarily vivid . . . a gigantic, jaw-dropping, grittily authentic saga.
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