![]() ![]() Accompanied by Prabaker, his friend and guide, Lin joins the Bombay underground where crime, murders, prostitution and vagrancy abides in no mean proportion. ![]() The story is narrated by Lin, an escaped prisoner who has fled to Bombay, India using a fake passport. Shantaram is essentially a pseudo-autobiography which narrates Roberts’s former life as a criminal and drug addict, with significant exaggeration to the actual events. ![]() The book was extremely well received and Roberts sold the rights for a potential film for $2 million. ![]() He published his first novel “Shantaram” after leaving prison. After evading capture for ten years he was rearrested on a drug trafficking run in Frankfurt in 1990, spending a further 6 years in prison. In order to finance his drug habit, Roberts turned to crime and was sentenced to 19 years for bank robbery but he made a famous day time escape from Pentridge Prison after serving just two years. Roberts became a heroin addict leading to a strain in his marriage that ended in divorce and the loss of custody of his daughter. Roberts, born in June 1952, overcame a debilitating heroin addiction and crime life to engineer a successful writing career that is to a large extent a chronicle of his earlier struggles. Gregory David Roberts is an Australian writer who is best known for the novel Shantaram. ![]()
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