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A profound, unputdownable, epic thriller set in Bombay - a standalone novel and a sequel to the international bestseller Shantaram

"Roberts is brilliant at creating a sense of menace and projecting the constant tension of the escaped convict ... crucially, he is also a man who loves and understands India ... nearly 900 pages of pure escape" Sunday Times

The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything.

Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set of rules.

It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life. But Lin can't leave the Island City: Karla, and a fatal promise, won't let him go.

Fans of Vikram Seth, John Irving and David Mitchell will love Shantaram and The Mountain Shadow.

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"Roberts is brilliant at creating a sense of menace and projecting the constant tension of the escaped convict, living on his wits, waiting to be murdered or betrayed at any moment . . . Crucially, he is also a man who loves and understands India . . . Nearly 900 pages of pure escape."--Sunday Times (UK)

"Roberts's sequel to Shantaram defies easy categorization, one of its many charms. The dashing hero Lin, an Australian fugitive, is worldly, two-fisted, rides a motorcycle, has a social conscience, quotes great writers and, as the book opens, struggles bravely to get over his lost love, Karla . . . He narrates his interactions with many larger-than-life street types in an energetic and often salty first person . . . . Roberts keeps the action moving and the narrative engaging . . . This series of robust, retro capers with contemporary trappings will have readers feverishly turning the pages."--Publishers Weekly

"The first book was a hit, and this volume will follow suit."--Library Journal

Praise for Shantaram:

Shantaram is a novel of the first order, a work of extraordinary art, a thing of exceptional beauty. If someone asked me what the book was about, I would have to say everything, everything in the world. Gregory David Roberts does for Bombay what Lawrence Durrell did for Alexandria, what Melville did for the South Seas, and what Thoreau did for Walden Pond: He makes it an eternal player in the literature of the world.--Pat Conroy

"Shantaram has provided me with the richest reading experience to date . . . It is seductive, powerful, complex, and blessed with a perfect voice. Like a voodoo ghost snatcher, Gregory David Roberts has captured the spirits of the likes of Henri Charrière, Rohinton Mistry, Tom Wolfe, and Mario Vargas Llosa, fused them with his own unique magic, and built the most gripping monument in print . . . Gregory David Roberts is a suitable giant, a dazzling guru, and a genius in full."--Moses Isegawa, author of Abyssinian Chronicles and Snakepit
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An epic thriller, a love story and a philosophical quest - the brilliant sequel to international bestseller SHANTARAM --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Gregory David Roberts retired from public life in 2014 to devote time to his family and new writing projects. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Gregory David Roberts escaped from a maximum-security facility and spent ten years on the run, and ten years in prison. After the publication of his first novel, the bestselling Shantaram, he spent ten years working as an ambassador for charitable and social justice organisations, and as a philosophical consultant to leaders and philanthropic foundations. He retired from public life in 2014 to devote his time to family and new writing projects.
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Gregory David Roberts retired from public life in 2014 to devote time to his family and new writing projects. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything.

Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set of rules.

It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life. But Lin can't leave the Island City: Karla, and a fatal promise, won't let him go.

--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008V6N7P0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador Australia (13 October 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3153 KB
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Gregory David Roberts (GDR), is an author, songwriter, composer and artist. He’s best known for his critically acclaimed best-selling novel Shantaram, which has sold over 6 million copies and was hailed “a masterpiece” by critics. It has been translated into 41 languages and is sold in over 116 countries.

In 2014, GDR retired from public life to write The Spiritual Path, work on musical projects and spend time with his family. The follow-up novel The Mountain Shadow was released in 2015. Currently, a TV series based on Shantaram and The Mountain Shadow, is in production by Apple TV +, Paramount TV and Anonymous Content, starring Charlie Hunnam as the lead.

In 2021, GDR published his first non-fiction book, The Spiritual Path, which takes us on a gripping personal journey of wonder and insight into science, belief, faith and devotion where Roberts describes the step-by-step path he followed in search of spiritual connection.

GDR fulfilled a life-long held ambition to write and record music with the release of his debut album Love&Faith in 2020. The album is co-produced by GDR and Dale ‘Dizzle’ Virgo (Drake/ Rihanna/Florence + The Machine/ Kendrick Lamar) and was recorded at Geejam Studios, Jamaica. 2021, saw GDR expand his music repertoire with the release of his first solo instrumental album Deep Cowboy.

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Barbara

An intriguing and extremely well written novel

Reviewed in Australia on 9 October 2021

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An intriguing novel full of violence, philosophy, and quotable and mind twirling observations on human relationships. The underlying integrity of he main character, Shantaram, kept me reading as well as th author’s sophisticated and technically near perfect writing style. It is not a ‘page turner’ but the real hook for me was in finding where the complicated scenarios would eventually lead him. I found it a challenging book to complete but his observations and thoughts will continue to challenge me for some time, I think.

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Aliesha

I hear the critics but read on anyway.

Reviewed in Australia on 2 June 2020

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This book no doubt has flaws but for some reason I just kept picking it up. It’s a strange mix of crime and punishment, love and relationship, churned in that cauldron which could only be India; the motherland of awakenings. Not to be compared with GDRs first novel but an interesting read if you can get past the underlying issues of repetitiveness.

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mariana jansen

Missed opportunities

Reviewed in Australia on 25 July 2019

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The whole book just misses the mark, it tries to be as insightful as the first to the detriment of the story line (with a lot of empty analogies). The main character just seems to not be involved in anything that is happening during the book, is always late to the party and in the wrong part of the city when things are going down and his current relationship with "the one" just makes no sense in terms of how they use to previously relate. hated it.

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Brilliant

Reviewed in Australia on 15 July 2019

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Shantaram is one of my favorite books so I was a little nervous to start this sequel. It feels jarring at first, with a very different tone, but once I was used to it I came to love it. It makes sense that 2 more years in the mafia would harden Roberts and make him a little more cold. I highly recommend this book to lovers of the original. Give it time and it becomes just as gripping.

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Dr John E

The most elegant imagery since Shakespeare

Reviewed in Australia on 29 June 2020

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Gregory David Roberts has a mastery of English that only Shakespeare before him could keep up. The gangster setting in what was then still Bombay might not seem the place to find such beauty but Roberts is interested in his characters and their loves and fears and hopes and torments. He blends the outside world with their subjective experience in a rolling wave of linguistic conjuring that makes a long book too, too short.

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Philipp Lemke

and some of the great characters of the first book

Reviewed in Australia on 3 September 2016

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Certainly a step down from especially the first half of SHANTARAM, which is an incredible read, Roberts' masterpiece. THE MOUNTAIN SHADOW is not even on par with the second half of SHANTARAM, which had already lost a lot of the insight, poetry, and rawness. The new book seems laboured and over-stuffed with attempts of poetry and wisdom, allegories and metaphor. Nonetheless, it is still Shantaram, and Bombay, and some of the great characters of the first book. I enjoyed the ride and was drawn in.

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AnZak

A superb follow-up to "Shantaran" but could easily stand alone as a great story

Reviewed in Australia on 20 April 2016

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A superb follow-up to "Shantaran" but could easily stand alone as a great story. The setting is superb and captures the authentic feel of being a native of Mumbai. Gregory David Roberts has an enormous writing talent and I look forward to more of his prose.

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Anna-Carina Tetzner

Somewhat disappointing read

Reviewed in Australia on 17 October 2020

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Definitely not as good as Shantaram but not bad either. I think reading Shantaram first is essential though in order to understand the characters, especially the history with Karla and some other main characters who reappear in the sequel.

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Geek

A very Disappointing sequel to Shantaram

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2018

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I was expecting more. After the wonderful journey Shantaram took us on I hoped for something inspiring. Unfortunately this book could have been condensed into half its size. Painfully philosophical with meandering prose. I was constantly hoping it would get better until the very end when I think even the author got bored and wrapped up everything nice and neatly in the last few pages. If you hold Shantaram in high regard you do not need to read this book. It's painful. Avoid.

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miss yolanda kaye

Soo Disappointing after the utter joy of Shantaram!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2019

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Shantaram was a truly mind blowing book for me, so I was really looking forward to reading this. I re-read Shantaram before eagerly picking up The Mountain Shadow but I hate to say I was thoroughly disappointed. First off; I'm not even sure what the point of this second book was?! The story line was weak and non commital and i felt like the only aim of the book was to simply cash in on the success of Shantaram!!! I found the writing incredibly clichéd and at points just downright 'cheesy'! The characters were shallow and underdeveloped and I came to actually dislike most of the main players, finding nothing of the 'humaness' and 'connection' in the first book! The only saving grace being Didier, whose lavish and camp quips made me chuckle throughout! Most of the leading characters come across as bigoted and self absorbed with Both Karla and Lin really starting to grate on me after a while!!! Lin and Karlas dialogue throughout is a shambles of clichés, pretentious philosophical meanderings and ridiculous aphorisms which made the writing feel somewhat tacky. God knows what the editor did; as the amount of word overuse and lyrical repetition was rife! Violence, killing and so called 'gangsta cool' saturated the book alongside soppy, 'lovey dovey' crap more akin to what you'd find in an amuteur American teenage novel!! Aside from this rather harsh criticism, there were moments where Roberts rich descriptive narrative shone through in his magical portrayals of India ; however I got bored towards the end of this book and was not surprised when it ended on an all too 'happily ever after' note!!
As much as I wanted to love this book- it was a total flop for me!! Fingers crossed that Roberts redeems himself with his next one!

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Adam dey

Amazing characters with interesting stories and a fast-paced plot made this book un-put-downable!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2018

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This book was an amazing sequel to shantaram. Following Lin and some of the characters in Shantaram, it's a story of crime, revenge and redemption in Bombay in the 1980s. Lin journeys to the mountain where he finds wisdom and friendship in a spiritual philosopher and teacher. This book explores deep philosophical ideas and paints them in a beautiful picture, I felt engaged and understood many of the ideas due to its excellent style of writing. Amazing characters with interesting stories and a fast-paced plot made this book un-put-downable! would definitley reccomend both mountain shadow and shantaram for a life chnaging read.

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Sarah

Absolute favourite

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2019

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This is a beautifully written and totally engaging story. I would recommend reading Shantaram first though as the story is continued in The Mountain Shadow.
This is a story for anyone. There are parts that contain violence (but not out of context) but there are so many well written and thought provoking parts that these far outway the bits that are tougher to read. The two books together are probably my favourite reads and I recommend them often.

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Doc

Dreadful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 April 2020

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I loved Shantaram and had high expectations for the sequel which made reading this drivel very disappointing. There is no real plot, the protagonist seems to be doing nothing but riding his bike from venue to venue and the whole is interspersed with brainless dialogues and tedious banter. I am amazed any editor would let this mindless meandering and boring story go for publication.

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