![]() 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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