

Shantaram
Author: Gregory David Roberts
Narrator: Sergio Bustos de la Tijera
Unabridged: 53 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: BookaVivo
Published: 07/13/2021
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, En Espanol
Author: Gregory David Roberts
Narrator: Sergio Bustos de la Tijera
Unabridged: 53 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: BookaVivo
Published: 07/13/2021
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, En Espanol
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. Recaptured, he served out his sentence, and established a successful multimedia company upon his release. Roberts is a now full-time writer and lives in Bombay.
There's enough reviews on this book I'm not going to summarize it again. I love this book, and yes it's massive but I think I've read it 3 times. It's not perfect but the parts that are great make up for the wobbly bits. I thought I'd throw in some of the lines I liked: "The world and I are not on sp......more
This is possibly the best book I've ever read. It was given to me by a friend of mine who loved it, and said that before she read it she had no desire to go to India, but after having read it she couldn't wait to go. This book is over 900 pages, so I found it a little challenging to start b/c I didn'......more
The way Roberts describes Indians in this book is like a series of bad caricatures - I cringed terribly. There is the over-friendly and smiling, trusting, barbaric, not very clever, poor Prabaker - (I HATED the way he wrote Prabaker's English. It made him sound like a racist Disney character or like......more
Let's get this straight from the start: according to the author, this book is based on real events, but it’s a novel, a work of fiction – not an autobiography. And that’s ok, except as this book is clearly based heavily on the author’s life, I couldn't help asking myself where exactly in this tale i......more
Have you ever been in a relationship that you were just done with but you were hoping they would end it and so you suffer through, day after day, rolling your eyes every time that person does that THING that you HATE and, yah, it was kind of fun at first but if they keep doing that THING that you HA......more