Gregory David Roberts has announced the release date for his new novel The Mountain Shadow, to be published by Picador Australia, which continues the story of Lin who we met in the bestseller Shantaram, is every bit as audacious, amazing, page turning, and breathtaking. Shantaram has now sold over 4 million copies worldwide so it goes without saying that we are incredibly excited to share this news with you. There is also talk about a film based on Shantaram being directed by Johnny Depp and starring Joel Edgerton.
On a post on his Facebook page, Roberts said that he is on the 13th rewrite of new book The Mountain Shadow and that his hope is that from the first page readers will “know that you’re back on a journey through unfamiliar territory, but in sync with others in a search for truth, love and faith”.
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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
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.
Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts. In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building-society branches, credit unions, and shops he had committed while addicted to heroin. In July 1980 he escaped from Victoria’s maximum-security prison in broad daylight, thereby becoming one of Australia’s most wanted men for what turned out to be the next ten years. For most of this period he lived in Bombay. He set up a free health clinic in the slums, acted in Bollywood movies, worked for the Bombay mafia as a forger, counterfeiter, and smuggler and, as a gun-runner, resupplied a unit of mujaheddin guerrilla fighters in Afghanistan. This is the setting of Shantaram.
Apart from having this highly unusual personal background, Greg Roberts is a very gifted writer. His book is a blend of vivid dialogue, unforgettable characters, amazing adventures, and superb evocations of Indian life. It can be read as a vast, extended thriller, as well as a superbly written meditation on the nature of good and evil. It is a compelling tale of a hunted man who had lost everything – his home, his family, and his soul – and came to find his humanity while living at the wildest edge of experience.
Comments
March 27, 2015 at 1:26 am
That book is never coming out!