Shantaram
This is a book I have aticipated to get a hold of since many many months, but never could get a hold of it . But I am a gal who gets what ever I set my heart on. So finally I picked it up last weekend from the local book shop and I have been hooked to it and its gonna keep me hooked for some time. Shantaram - novel of adventure, moral purpose and geat story telling. Its based on a true extraordinary story about a guy named David Roberts (author) who was a heroin addict and one of them ost wanted man by Australian police. He escaped prison, came to Bombay, lived in a slum and leant the city's local dialect - hindi and marathi, set up a free helth clinic for poor, worked as a money launderer forthe mafia and have acted in bollywood. he has seen it all and have done it all.
I can vouch that any mumbaikar will love each and every single page of this book .. all 936 of it in total.
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Johny Depp as Shantaram - that's worth the wait *sigh*
hey!!
this book is awesome. i wrote a whole damn post on this guy. i jst got it for my b'day and am loving reading it..!
have fun..
Hi,
HEre from Hari's blog..thks for the book recommendations..Ive been wanting to get back to the readind habit for a long time now
anu
Hey, thanks for dropping by..
sounds like a interesting book.
Three decades before this, came a book that took the literary world by storm. You should read Papillon
-Aditya
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me heard quite a bit abt this book too...I'll check it out....
im hooked on to the book..its really really nice..
yeah I just bought this book. I have it in my list of reads.. Also try Maximum City. :)
I saw David roberts interview on NDTV, he has had a really amazing life. Being wanted in austrailia, living in slums in mumbai, bollywood (as u mentioned in your post) but now he is also in one of the hollywood movies. During filming of the interview in the slums ppl used to come by and he used to talk in marathi and hindi with them, which was amazing. I will add this book to my list of must reads!
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