Quest'epica saga segue il viaggio di un uomo fuggito dal carcere australiano e perso nelle vibranti strade di Bombay. La narrazione intreccia un avvincente mosaico di avventure, amicizia e ricerca d'identità in un paesaggio esotico. Immergetevi in una storia ricca di colpi di scena, dove la lotta personale per la sopravvivenza si intreccia con la comprensione delle complessità della vita indiana.
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.
A profound, unputdownable, epic thriller set in Mumbai - a standalone novel
and a sequel to the international bestseller SHANTARAM The first glimpse of
the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from
the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's
improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode,
with my friends, into the end of everything. Shantaram introduced millions of
readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian
fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In
The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a
Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set
of rules. It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin
lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his
soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from
a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many
of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become
entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy
man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life.
But Lin can't leave the Island City: Karla, and a fatal promise, won't let him
go.
