
India · Literary fiction
Shantaram
Few books throw the reader into Bombay with quite this much force. Lin arrives as a fugitive, intending to pass through, and instead finds himself absorbed into the city. He follows friendships into crowded neighbourhoods, cafés, prisons, criminal circles and eventually far beyond Bombay itself. The city he encounters is generous, brutal, theatrical and endlessly alive.
Imprisonment
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