Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author, most noted for his novel Shantaram. He was a heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison /5. So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel by Gregory David Roberts, set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear/5(10K). · Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author, most noted for his novel Shantaram. He was a heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison and fled to India where he lived for ten years/5(K).
Genre. Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author, most noted for his novel Shantaram. He was a heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison and fled to India where he lived for ten years. Roberts lived in Melbourne, Germany and France, and finally returned to Mumbai, where he set up charitable foundations to. Title: Shantaram: A Novel Author(s): Gregory David Roberts ISBN: / (USA edition) Publisher: St. Martin's Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA Amazon AU. Gregory David Roberts was born in Melbourne in After surviving the events dealt with in Shantaram, he was captured in Germany in and eventually extradited to Australia. On completing his prison sentence, he established a small multi-media company and is now a full-time writer.
Shantaram: A Novel by Roberts, Gregory David. Used; Condition UsedVeryGood ISBN 10 ISBN 13 Seller. Phillybooks COM LLC. Seller rating. 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 Bombay―where 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. The real-life adventures of 'Shantaram' Gregory David Roberts, who went from being an idealistic philosophy student and activist, to becoming a heroin addict.
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