![]() ![]() The book is populated by several of the same characters (notably Lin, also known as Shantaram), and it unfolds on much the same urban landscape of drug lords, corrupt police and washed-out expatriates. A sequel in a planned tetralogy of novels, it is likely to please many Shantaram fans. The Mountain Shadow, Roberts’s second novel, appears more than a decade later. The book has gone on to occupy a distinctive - and deserving - place in an emerging genre of Bombay noir. Hollywood rights were scooped up (though a film has yet to be made). The book nonetheless possessed a grittiness and vividness that helped Roberts sell four million copies around the world. ![]() Literary purists scoffed at its purple prose Indian (and many other) readers bristled at its stereotypes and cultural simplifications. Gregory David Roberts’s Shantaram was an unlikely publishing sensation. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |