![]() Prabaker invites his new friend to accompany him to his home, a rural village called Sundar. He meets a group of expatriate criminals who congregate at a bar called Leopold’s. He visits the slave market and a hashish den. Prabaker offers to show Lin “the real Bombay” and the two men begin a tour that takes them into the criminal underworld of the city. ![]() Meanwhile, Lin and Prabaker become firm friends. He hires a local guide, Prabaker, who dubs him “Lin.” Prabaker takes Lin to the Colaba district of the city, where Lin meets Karla, a beautiful and mysterious Swiss woman to whom Lin is instantly attracted. The novel opens as Lindsay, a fugitive and recovering heroin addict, arrives in Bombay. Roberts has announced that he plans three sequels to Shantaram: the first of these, The Mountain Shadow, was published in 2015. ![]() ![]() The novel’s protagonist, who goes by the false name “Lindsay Ford,” makes a home in the Bombay slums and eventually becomes involved in arms dealing in Afghanistan. ![]() Shantaram (2003) caused a sensation on its publication because the novel’s events are based on the life of its author Gregory David Roberts, an Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from jail and fled to Bombay, India, becoming one of Australia’s most wanted men. ![]()
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