Shantaram
A Novel
Gregory David Roberts
"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel by Gregory David Roberts, set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by ...
Publish Date
2005-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
2005-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
First Published in 2003
Goodreads rating
4.23
ISBN
8601401279068
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Recommendations
8
Recommendations
2013-04-20T18:53:03.000Z
@kobebryant read shantaram-great mysterious read of another culture-it will keep you occupied until game time. Patience is a virtue – source2020-01-02T18:04:01.000Z
Once in a while, a book comes along that I have to recommend to everyone I meet. "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts is one of those books. Who wants to read it (again) with me this January? Shop now: #NatesReads – sourceOne of the most beautiful novels I ever read by Gregory David Roberts, is one I've gotten to know very well, just an ecstatically beautiful book. – source
2020-01-12T22:32:23.000Z
Outstanding book. Talk about immersive.
Few other epic fiction books that left me wowed:
-thousand autumn’s of Jacob de Zoet by Mitchell
-cloud atlas by Mitchell
-a fraction of the whole by Toltz – sourceYou get an incredibly vivid, immersive, deep, and in some ways uplifting view of India and the underworld in India, into that part of Asia. – source