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.
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 Bombay - a standalone novel and a sequel to the international bestseller Shantaram "Roberts is brilliant at creating a sense of menace and projecting the constant tension of the escaped convict ... crucially, he is also a man who loves and understands India ... nearly 900 pages of pure escape" Sunday Times 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. Fans of Vikram Seth, John Irving and David Mitchell will love Shantaram and The Mountain Shadow.
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.'
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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.
