""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 set in the underworld
of contemporary Bombay. "Shantaram" is narrated by Lin, an escaped
convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in
Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.
Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two
enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes
and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from
other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot
find elsewhere.
As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches
for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's
poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of
the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture,
murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to
unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two
people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather,
criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of
the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and
beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her
and yet give her a terrible power.
Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison
agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and
mujaheddin guerrillas---this huge novel has the world of human
experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its
heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the
debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.
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