Shantaram is a crazy book. Johnny Depp, in his own words, was blown away by her, after which he immediately took up the film adaptation. A volume of 800 pages and you really swallow it instantly, like a virtuoso dish of oriental cuisine: colorful, a lot, unusual, tasty. Although it’s better not to know what it’s made of.
Shantaram is a crazy book. Johnny Depp, in his own words, was blown away by her, after which he immediately took up the film adaptation. A volume of 800 pages and you really swallow it instantly, like a virtuoso dish of oriental cuisine: colorful, a lot, unusual, tasty. Although it’s better not to know what it’s made of. Roberts, a former drug addict and robber, described his own adventures in Bombay while in an Australian prison. A world of slum India, populated by noble mafiosi, child traffickers, charming prostitutes, bear trainers and village savages, Roberts skillfully stitches detective plots, descriptions of the war in Afghanistan and love stories. The result was a worldwide bestseller. Now we know how it was done in Bombay.
ABC Classics, 864 p.
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