Book
Shantaram / Gregory David Roberts.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780312330538 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780312330521 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 936 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, [2005]
- Copyright: ©2003
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Australia : Scribe Publications, 2003. |
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| Subject: | Australians > Foreign countries > Fiction. Fugitives from justice > Fiction. Australians > India > Fiction. Criminals > Fiction. Clinics > Fiction. Bombay (India) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Autobiographical fiction. Action and adventure fiction. |
Gregory David Roberts, the author of Shantaram and its sequel, The Mountain Shadow, was born in Melbourne, Australia. Sentenced to nineteen years in prison for a series of armed robberies, he escaped and spent ten of his fugitive years in Bombayâwhere he established a free medical clinic for slum-dwellers, and worked as a counterfeiter, smuggler, gunrunner, and street soldier for a branch of the Bombay mafia. Recaptured, he served out his sentence, and established a successful multimedia company upon his release. Roberts is now a full-time writer and lives in Bombay.
