The story of a man who escapes from a maximum security facility in Australia and arrives in Bombay, crossroads of the underworld, where he works in an aid station and smuggles drugs and guns.
Gregory Roberts Books
Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author, most noted for his novel Shantaram. His work often delves into the depths of the human experience, exploring themes of redemption, identity, and the search for meaning amidst chaos. Roberts writes with remarkable empathy and insight, drawing readers into the complex moral dilemmas of his characters. His style is rich and evocative, frequently capturing the vibrant atmosphere of the settings where his stories unfold.







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.
The Spiritual Path
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
The author of the international bestseller Shantaram takes us on a gripping personal journey of wonder and insight into science, belief, faith and devotion. Drawing on sacred traditions, rigorous logic and the six-year instruction of his spiritual teacher, Roberts describes the step-by-step process he followed in search of spiritual connection - a process that anyone, of any belief or none, can benefit from in their own lives. This gripping personal account of the 'Leap Of Faith' is a compellingly fresh addition to such enduring, spiritually inspiring works as Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Road Less Travelled and The Celestine Prophecy. As Roberts writes, 'The Spiritual Path is a book on spiritual matters that my younger self wanted desperately: one that offers more answers than questions, and helps to reset the spiritual compass.'
Ägypten. Das Heilige Land. Sonderausgabe.
- 271 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Шантарам
- 864 pages
- 31 hours of reading
Эта преломленная в художественной форме исповедь человека, который сумел выбраться из бездны и уцелеть, протаранила все списки бестселлеров и заслужила восторженные сравнения с произведениями лучших писателей нового времени, от Мелвилла до Хемингуэя
Shantaram
- 1177 pages
- 42 hours of reading
Nel 1978, il giovane studente di filosofia e attivista politico Greg Roberts viene condannato a 19 anni di prigione per una serie di rapine a mano armata. È diventato eroinomane dopo la separazione dalla moglie e la morte della loro bambina. Ma gli anni che seguono vedranno Greg scappare da una prigione di massima sicurezza, vagare per anni per l'Australia come ricercato, vivere in nove paesi differenti, attraversarne quaranta, fare rapine, allestire a Bombay un ospedale per indigenti, recitare nei film di Bollywood, stringere relazioni con la mafia indiana, partire per due guerre, in Afghanistan e in Pakistan, tra le fila dei combattenti islamici, tornare in Australia a scontare la sua pena. E raccontare la sua vita in un romanzo epico di più di mille pagine.
От производителя Впервые на русском — долгожданное продолжение одного из самых поразительных романов начала XXI века. "Шантарам" — это была преломленная в художественной форме исповедь человека, который сумел выбраться из бездны и уцелеть, разошедшаяся по миру тиражом четыре миллиона экземпляров (из них полмиллиона — в России) и заслужившая восторженные сравнения с произведениями лучших писателей нового времени, от Мелвилла до Хемингуэя. Маститый Джонатан Кэрролл писал: "Человек, которого "Шантарам" не тронет до глубины души, либо не имеет сердца, либо мертв... "Шантарам" — "Тысяча и одна ночь" нашего века. Это бесценный подарок для всех, кто любит читать". И вот наконец Г.Д.Робертс написал продолжение истории Лина по прозвищу Шантарам, бежавшего из австралийской тюрьмы строгого режима и ставшего в Бомбее фальшивомонетчиком и контрабандистом. Итак, прошло два года с тех пор, как Лин потерял двух самых близких ему людей: Кадербхая — главаря мафии, погибшего в афганских горах, и Карлу — загадочную, вожделенную красавицу, вышедшую замуж за бомбейского медиамагната. Теперь Лину предстоит выполнить последнее поручение, данное ему Кадербхаем, завоевать доверие живущего на горе мудреца, сберечь голову в неудержимо разгорающемся конфликте новых главарей мафии, но главное — обрести любовь и веру.



