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Shantaram : a novel

The story of a man who escapes from a maximum security facility in Australia and arrives in Bombay, crossroads of the underworld, where he works in an aid station and smuggles drugs and guns.

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  • "שנטרם"
  • "Xiang ta lan"
  • "Shantaram"@pl
  • "Shantaram"@he
  • "Shantaram"@it
  • "Shantaram"

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  • "Shantaram ?r Gregory David Roberts egen ber?ttelse fr?n de h?ndelserika och omtumlande ?ren som f?rrymd f?nge i Bombays undre v?rld. I ett av stadens slumomr?den ?ppnar han en sjukv?rdsmottagning f?r de fattiga och n?dst?llda. Han arbetar f?r maffian som pengatv?ttare och f?rfalskare och f?ljer med maffialedaren Abdel Khader Khan till Afghanistan f?r att f?rse mujaheddin med vapen i kampen mot ryssarna. Hans kastas i indiskt f?ngelse och f?r utst? tortyr och sv?lt. I den gr?n?gda och mystiska Karla m?ter han k?rleken. Shantaram ?r ett niohundra sidor l?ngt l?s?ventyr och en varm och innerlig k?rleksf?rklaring till staden Bombay och dess m?nniskor. Det ?r en h?rd och r? v?rld Roberts beskriver, men det ?r en v?rld d?r k?rleken, lojaliteten och v?nskapen alltid st?r i centrum."
  • "The story of a man who escapes from a maximum security facility in Australia and arrives in Bombay, crossroads of the underworld, where he works in an aid station and smuggles drugs and guns."@en
  • ""故事是這樣開始的, 從一個女人, 一個城市, 一點運氣開始. 本書是葛雷哥里・羅伯茲的自傳式小說, 他從一個大學裡最年輕的哲學與文學講師, 淪落為黑獄重刑犯, 在穿越兩座機槍塔後, 從澳洲看守最嚴密的監獄逃脫, 偷渡至孟買 - 儘管潮濕, 悶熱, 熙攘擁擠, 但能讓他在人間蒸發的城市. 帶著假名字, 假護照和不可告人的過去, 他在印度導遊的帶領下進入孟買底層社會, 和乞丐, 妓女, 苦修聖者, 演員, 士兵與來自世界各地的逃亡者一起, 在這個城市開啟新的人生旅程 ..."--Page 4 of cover."
  • "Bombay, années 1970. Lin, homme en cavale, évadé d'une prison australienne, atterrit dans les rues de la capitale économique indienne. Il finit par entrer dans la mafia de Bombay.... De l'incendie du bidonville aux hôtels cinq étoiles, de la guerre des gangs aux films de Bollywood, des gourous spirituels aux guérillas des moudjahidin, ce roman épique entraîne dans une Inde fascinante."
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  • "Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, and forges bonds with fellow exiles."
  • "Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, and forges bonds with fellow exiles."@en
  • "Novel on Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from Australian Prison and fled to India where he lived in Mumbai for ten years; real events."
  • "A novel based upon the life of the author about Lin, an escaped convict who disappears into the dark side of Bombay's streets and enters into a life of murder and betrayal, prison and torture, and war."
  • "Shantaram is the intriguing tale of a man who lost everything - his home, his family and his soul - and found his humanity while living on the wildest edge of experience. The novel is based on the life of the author, once one of Australia's most wanted men. Known as the Building Society Bandit in the 1970s, he was sentenced to 19 years before escaping from Victoria's maximum-security prison, Pentridge. He fled to India and lived in Bombay where he set up a free health clinic in the slums, acted in Bollywood movies, worked for the local mafia as a forger, counterfeiter and smuggler and ran guns to the mujaheddin guerilla fighters in Afghanistan. He was eventually recaptured in Germany and extradited back to Australia to serve out his sentence."@en
  • "Een Australische man opent in de sloppenwijken van Bombay een medisch bureau voor de armen, werkt voor de Indiase maffia en belandt in de Russisch-Afghaanse oorlog. Autobiografisch relaas."
  • "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."@en
  • "Novel based on Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from Pentridge Prison and fled to India where he lived for 10 years; real events."

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  • "Adventure novels"
  • "Chinese language materials"
  • "Action and adventure fiction"
  • "Going it alone"
  • "Dobrodružné romány"
  • "English fiction"@es
  • "Adventure stories"
  • "Australské romány"
  • "Powieść australijska"@pl
  • "Australian fiction"
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"@tr
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Belonging"
  • "Roman australien"
  • "Autobiografické romány"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Fictional autobiographies"@en
  • "Fictional autobiographies"
  • "Translations"
  • "Autobiographical fiction"@en
  • "Autobiographical fiction"
  • "Autobiographical fiction"@es
  • "Autobiographical novels"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Šantaram"
  • "Xiangtalan = Shantaram"
  • "項塔蘭 下"
  • "Xiang ta lan"
  • "Śāntārāma"
  • "Shantaram : [roman]"
  • "Xiang ta lan. [v. 1-2]"
  • "Shantaram"@tr
  • "Shantaram : a novel"
  • "Shantaram : a novel"@en
  • "Sántárám"@hu
  • "Shantaram"@en
  • "Shantaram"@it
  • "Shantaram"
  • "Shantaram"@da
  • "Shantaram"@pl
  • "Shantaram"@es
  • "Shantaram"@sv
  • "Shantaram : Roman"
  • "Шантарам : роман"
  • "Xiang ta lan. 2"
  • "Xiang ta lan shang"
  • "Xiang ta lan xia"
  • "Shantaram Roman"
  • "项塔兰"
  • "Shantaram a novel"
  • "項塔蘭 上"
  • "שאנטראם"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Xiang ta lan = Shantaram"
  • "項塔蘭"
  • "Śāntār̲āṃ"
  • "Shantaram : roman"
  • "Шантарам"
  • "項塔蘭 = Shantaram"
  • "Shanṭaram"
  • "Šántárám"@en
  • "Šántárám"
  • "Xiang ta lan / Shantaram / Georgory David Roberts"
  • "项塔兰 = Shantaram"

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