Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts
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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


Synopsis

"Me tomo mucho tiempo y a la mayor parte del mundo aprender lo que se sobre el amor y el destino y las decisiones que tomamos, pero el corazon de esto me llego en un instante, mientras estaba encadenado a una pared y siendo torturado". Asi comienza esta epica e hipnotizante primera novela de Gregory David Roberts, ambientada en el inframundo de la bombay contemporanea. Shantaram es narrado por Lin, un convicto fugado con un pasaporte falso que huye de la prision de maxima seguridad en Australia por las calles llenas de una ciudad donde puede desaparecer. Acompanados por su guia y fiel amigo, Prabaker,los dos entran en la sociedad oculta de mendigas y gangsters de Bombay, prostitutas y hombres santos, soldados y actores, e indios y exiliados de otros paises, que buscan en este lugar notable lo que no pueden encontrar en otros lugares. Como un hombre cazado sin hogar, familia o identidad, Lin busca amor y significado mientras dirige una clinica en uno de los barrios pobres de la ciudad, y sirve a su aprendizaje en las artes oscuras de la mafia de Bombay. La busqueda lo lleva a la guerra, la tortura en prision, el asesinato y una serie de traiciones enigmaticas y sangrientas. Las claves para desentranar los misterios e intrigas que unen a Lin estan en manos de dos personas. El primero es Khader Khan: padrino de la mafia, criminal-filosofo-santo, y mentor de Lin en el inframundo de la Ciudad Dorada. La segunda es Karla: escurridiza, peligrosa y hermosa, cuyas pasiones son impulsadas por secretos que la atormentan y sin embargo le dan un poder terrible. Barrios marginales ardientes y hoteles de cinco estrellas, amor romantico y agonias carceleras, guerras criminales y peliculas de Bollywood, gurus espirituales y guerrilleros muyahidines--- esta gran novela tiene el mundo de la experiencia humana a su alcance, y un amor apasionado por la India en el corazon. Basado en la vida del autor, es en cualquier medida el debut de una voz extraordinaria en la literatura.

About Gregory David Roberts

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy on January 26, 2008

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

Goodreads review by Jennifer on June 14, 2008

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

Goodreads review by Mayuri on August 29, 2008

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

Goodreads review by Andrew on April 13, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Marnie on February 09, 2017

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