林巴巴这一生，一言难尽。
他曾是一名理想主义者、哲学家、诗人，接着又成了吸毒者、劫匪和通缉犯。命运之神将他扔到了地球的另一端——印度孟买。在那里，他成为第一个融入孟买贫民窟的白人。
他在印度农村学习如何穿着衣服洗澡；他住进贫民窟，并成为众人爱戴的医生；他加入黑帮，干起了 走私和军火交易的勾当，一次次冲进枪林弹雨中；他爱上了一个绿眼睛的女人，并跌入了一个更深的秘密……
他见证了很多死亡，但也找到了真正的生命。他的故事比别人的残酷许多，勇敢许多，热切许多。
“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”
So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.
Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.
As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city’s poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.
Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas – this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.
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