Prabaker takes Linbaba to the Colaba district of the city where he meets a German woman named Karla and instantly falls in love with her. His first friend in India’s metropolis fondly addresses him as Linbaba. Roberts is welcomed in Mumbai, the busiest city of India, by an affable taxi driver named Prabaker. The 10 years in India for Gregory feature a series of transits and events, sometimes too fantastic and inconceivable for the average person. In the year of 1980, while serving a prison sentence in Australia for committing several armed robberies, Roberts escapes to India where he spends 10 years before being caught and extradited back to his native land. The debut novel of Australian writer, Gregory David Roberts, it is essentially an autobiographical piece of work, but parts of it are reportedly fiction as well. Shantaram is one of those rare books, which can make one rethink life from an entirely different perspective. But when such a book still leaves the reader slightly delirious and wanting more, it makes you realise that this is no ordinary novel. After reading a 900-something-paged book which is thrilling, philosophical, racy, romantic, giddy, heartbreakingly tragic, you would think one would be finally sated – having read something which is possibly about everything there is in the world.
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