Shantaram
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- A global Ukrainian bestseller!
"Shantaram" is a heartfelt story about a bank robber who escaped from an Australian prison and hides in the slums of Mumbai.
The novel's main character lost his life direction due to family troubles and became a drug addict and robber. He was convicted of several crimes but escaped from an Australian prison where he was supposed to serve a nineteen-year sentence. Using fake documents under the name Lindsay Ford, he flees to India, to Mumbai (Bombay). The first person he meets is the guide Prabaker, who becomes a true friend. In a short time, Lin befriends many locals and foreigners living in Mumbai. These acquaintances bring the hero numerous adventures involving danger, love, pain, friendship, betrayal, the film industry, death, poetry, fights, a traveling circus, political and criminal conflicts, drugs, weapons, philosophical conversations, war, and, of course, Indian gods, Indian cuisine, Indian dances, and songs. On the streets of Bombay, Lin meets the beautiful and mysterious Karla, whose relationship with him becomes a difficult trial. After a robbery and beating, the hero faces life in an Indian village and work as a farmer, medical practice in the Bombay slums, prison, work for a mafia clan, and participation in the Afghan war. Is this the freedom Lin so desperately sought? What in his life is chance, fate, his own decision, or the manifestation of someone else's will?
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