The mountain shadow / Gregory David Roberts.
Series: Shantaram. 2 | Shantaram ; bk. 2Publication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : Pan Macmillan, 2015.Description: 873 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781743535592 :
- 1743535597
- Fugitives from justice -- India -- Bombay -- Fiction
- Fugitives from justice -- Australia -- Fiction
- Autobiographical fiction
- Organized crime -- India -- Bombay -- Fiction
- Criminals -- Fiction
- Australians -- India -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Fugitives from justice -- Fiction
- Bombay (India) -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
- PR9619.4.R625
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | ROB | Shantaram Bk.2 | Available | 059796 |
Maps on cover linings and endpapers.
A breath of Bombay hope, in the first glimpse of the sea, on Marine Drive, filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's recklessness. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything. The end of the eighties was the beginning of everything. The Berlin wall fell on a ruined empire, and the Taliban took Afghanistan. Lin, on the run after escaping from prison in Australia, working as a passport forger for a Bombay mafia gang, finds himself standing on a tattered corner of a bloody carpet that would soon cover most of the world. But he can't leave the Island City: not without Karla. Two years after the events in Shantaram, Bombay is a different world, playing by different rules. Lin's search for love and faith leads him through secret and violent intrigues to the dangerous truth. A love story told with hope and humour, a personal struggle for redemption, and a philosophical quest for the wisdom of our common humanity, The Mountain Shadow is a sublime novel, and an all-consuming, epic thriller.