SOLD $75 SHANTARAM - GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS - Little Brown, London, 2004, First UK Edn., 935 pages,
SHANTARAM - GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS - Little Brown, London, 2004, First UK Edn., 935 pages, VG hardback with VG dustjacket (minor fraying top edge), previous owner's inscription on fep. Perhaps the most remarkable book I've ever read about India. In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to 19 years in maximum security for robbery in Australia but he breaks out after only two. Hiding in Bombay for the next ten years he establishes a medical clinic from slum-dwellers then worked as a counterfeiter, smuggler and gunrunner for one of the branches of Bombay mafia. The result is an epic tale of slums and mansions, romance, prison torture, philosophers and assassins, mafia gang wars and Bollywood films. If ever there is a book that is hard to put down...this is it - Scarce as a hardback 1st Edn.,$NZ75.
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