The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts

The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts

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.

A kind of gangster's Shakespeare * New York Times *
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 *
Evocative... shines a light into the shadowy corners of society and our darkest desires * Mail on Sunday *
Profound meditations on the nature of life, time, ambition, evil, love and everything else that matters * New York Times *
An unlikely publishing sensation... [Roberts] has undeniably created a genuine universe, a teeming underbelly of larger-than-life characters * New York Times Book Review *
Re-immerse yourself in his vibrant and captivating world of love, friendship, and anger... Roberts' latest will take readers on an adventure just as epic in scope and feeling * Bookish *
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 *

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

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ISBN 13	9780349121703
ISBN 10	0349121702
Title	The Mountain Shadow
Author	Gregory David Roberts
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2016-06-02
Number of pages	880
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