Sometimes you've got to wonder whether you're doing everything you should with your life. Sometimes you should be happy that you're not living a life quite this full. Shantaram is the story of an Australian convict who escaped to Bombay where he sold drugs to tourists, traded false IDs, got himself serious beaten in jail, set up a free health clinic, fought in the Afghan war, fell in love and, yes, wrote this book.

Read it - you'll question aspects of your life you never even considered.

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Product Description

This debut novel is based on the author's dramatic and extraordinary true story of life on the run in the Bombay underworld.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #182 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-24
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 7.83" h x 1.89" w x 5.04" l, 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 944 pages

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Review
A literary masterpiece ... at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny ... it has the grit and pace of a thriller (DAILY TELEGRAPH )

Powerful and original ... a remarkable achievement (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

Extraordinarily vivid ... a gigantic, jaw-dropping, grittily authentic saga (DAILY MAIL )

A publishing phenomenon (SUNDAY TIMES )

Sunday Telegraph
'Powerful and original ... a remarkable achievement'

Pat Conroy
'A novel of the first order, a work of extraordinary art, a thing of exceptional beauty'