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A review by thewordshaker
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
4.0
It’s sometimes easier to read about countries from the perspective of an outsider. I wanted to read a book about India and here it was - but it is very much a book about an Australian criminal on the run in a foreign land.
He’s quite good with prose and I have vivid recollections of his passages even years from then. Some parts of it are fantastical - and though it can be read as an autobiography, I think that’d be unfair to the country it’s based in and the people he writes about.
He’s quite good with prose and I have vivid recollections of his passages even years from then. Some parts of it are fantastical - and though it can be read as an autobiography, I think that’d be unfair to the country it’s based in and the people he writes about.