It’s a profound tribute to his willpower… At once a high-kicking, eye-gouging adventure, a love saga and a savage yet tenderly lyrical fugitive vision. E Gregory David Roberts infatti aveva annunciato, sei anni fa, di ritirarsi dalla scena per andare verso una reclusione creativa. Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram follows a fugitive named Lin Ford (Charlie Hunnam) looking to get lost. Then, in case anyone thought he was slacking, he acted in Bollywood and fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan… Amazingly, Roberts wrote Shantaram three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions. He found time to learn Hindi and Marathi, fall in love, and spend time being worked over in an Indian jail. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, forger and street soldier. ‘In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Based on his own extraordinary life, Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram is a mesmerizing novel about a man on the run who becomes entangled within the underworld of 1980s Bombaythe basis for the Apple + TV series starring Charlie Hunnam. ‘A gigantic, jaw-dropping, grittily authentic saga’ Daily Mail ‘A literary masterpiece… at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny… it has the grit and pace of a thriller’ Daily Telegraph A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld

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