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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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Gregory David Roberts retired from public life in 2014 to devote time to his family and new writing projects.

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Publisher: Picador Australia (13 October 2015)
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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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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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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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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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As good as the first one.

Reviewed in Australia on 4 November 2015

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This really is a sequel - it just carries on from where Shantaram left off. If you loved Shantaram, you will love this. It has many of the same characters and settings, plus lots of new people, places, adventures, philosophies... the journey towards complexity continues. Its just great.

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simon

Not quite shantaram!

Reviewed in Australia on 19 April 2019

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A long read, with beautiful English expression however at times the book seems directionless... Meandering through Bombay Street life.... Not a must read... But completes the picture.

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rick selway

Excellent read

Reviewed in Australia on 30 July 2016

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Shantram was superb, this is better. Well written, as each character is revealed. I do feel there is a third book coming to finish the story so far

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The Mountain Shadow

Reviewed in Australia on 9 May 2017

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A colourful and descriptive story about a fugitive's life in Bombay, his involvement with the local underbelly and his great love for Karla. A revelation of the richness of India.

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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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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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Sue Cartwright

Keen observations of India's spiritual beauty and culture

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2018

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This book, true to Gregory's epic form in Shantaram (which I highly recommend), is a thoroughly enjoyable and exciting read, it is also truly enlightening.

From keen observations of India's spiritual beauty and culture: One of the great mysteries of India, and the greatest of all its joys, is the tender warmth of the lowest paid. The man wasn't angling for a tip: most of the men who used the washroom didn't give one. He was simply a kind man, in a place of essential requirement, giving me a genuinely kind smile, one human being to another.

To understanding the truth in human nature: In the world we created for ourselves, it's a lie to be a man, and a lie to be a woman. A woman is always more than any idea imposed on her, and a man is always more than any duty imposed on him.

To the meaning of life itself: The set of positive characteristics is in every particle of matter in existence, expressed at its own level of complexity, and the more complex the arrangement of the matter, the more complex the manifestation of the set of positive characteristics ... At our human level of complexity, two remarkable things happen. First, we have non-evolutionary knowledge. Second, we have the capacity to override our animal nature, and behave like the unique human-animals that we are.

I could relate hundreds of these astute and powerful observations from this one book, and it is on my 'to read again list' along with Shantaram.

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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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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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Elaine Groves

The mountain shadow

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2018

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This book is the follow-up to Shantaram and is just as good. They are both about the power of redemption and very compelling in both character detail, - from very good through to very evil, and all the shades in between, and descriptive prose - you can see the slums, and the dreadful prison conditions and the people who populate the pages as if you were there!!! Very hard to put down once started.

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Stein Claudia Dr

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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C. J. Opacic

A really disappointing follow up

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2018

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I absolutely loved Shantaram and bought this immediately. I'm so disappointed - the story line was terrible and didn't feel thought out, and there was none of the magic of the first book - it almost felt like it was written by someone different. I wish I had stopped after the first book now - this felt too forced with no real purpose.

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Beth Ani

but it's still a great novel and worth a read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 June 2018

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An interesting story with a philosophical thread. For me it's wasn't as enthralling as Shantaram which had me hooked from the first chapter. The Mountain Shadow took a while to get into, the first parts are more about Lin's life as a gangster than life in and culture Bombay, but it's still a great novel and worth a read. Some of his new characters are very entertaining and we get to know the old character a lot better.

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Sabina

Closure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2017

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It's not possible to read this book without having first read Shantaram, which for me, is without doubt the best book I've ever read. So this book had big shoes to fill and expectations to meet ... I'm not sure it did. It was good but very fictional in a cliché way on more than one occasion. That said, I'll miss the characters I feel as though I've lived with.

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Seller and product good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 December 2018

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Good value product all as described. I did struggle to get into this and will admit that I read it in holiday and haven’t picked it up since. I knew that it wasnt going to be the same as Shantaram but it’s also not a page turner in my opinion hence why it’s on the shelf. I’ll pick it up again when I next travel no doubt and have another go.

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Worth a read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2019

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If you've read Shantaram, then I recommend this. It's not as good but it's still great to see how the characters develop.
Sometimes a little full of itself in its philosophising, but nonetheless I really enjoyed it - and will miss most of the characters I've got to know over the 2000 pages of these two books.

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PWD

Sequel only

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2019

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Only really makes sense if you’ve read the first one - Shantaram which is a much better book. Do read it if you want essentially the conclusion to those characters but it lacks the detail and humour of the first.

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Dawnie56

Follow on book to Shantaram

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2017

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Following on from Shantaram. Just as enjoyable to read as the first book. Easy to follow the story to find out what has happen from the story lines that were in Shantaram. Glad I got it.

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Boring, boring, far too long book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2018

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A boring account of horrible crimes in Mumbai. If you enjoyed Shantaram don't buy this. The author evoked not in shred of empathy in the characters in me

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