A breath of Bombay hope, in the first glimpse of the sea, on Marine Drive, filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay’s recklessness. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything. The end of the eighties was the beginning of everything. The Berlin wall fell on an empire, and the Taliban took Afghanistan. Lin, on the run after escaping from prison in Australia, working as a passport forger for a Bombay mafia gang, finds himself standing on a tattered corner of a bloody carpet that would soon cover most of the world. But he can’t leave the Island City: not without Karla.
Reviews
‘The Mountain Shadow has everything you could wish for from a great novel and everything we have come to expect from the genius behind Shantaram. It has the pace and action of a thriller, but it is also profound and moving. When I first published Shantaram I knew with absolute clarity that it would become a classic. Ten years on it has sold four millioncopies worldwide – and changed many lives along the way. The Mountain Shadow doesn’t just continue the story – it tells us something new about love, life and faith. It’s wonderful. I can’t wait for people to read it.’ -- Antonia Hodgson, Editor-in-Chief, Little Brown UK
" Shantaram with over 250,000 copies sold in India alone is the largest selling fiction title at a price point over Rs 400. The Mountain Shadow is probably the most eagerly awaited sequel, and ten years and another thousand pages later, readers will find the wait worthwhile. I have no doubt that this will become the must-read, must-buy novel of the year."
– Thomas Abraham, Managing Director, Hachette India
About the Author
Gregory David Roberts was born in Melbourne in 1952. After surviving the events dealt with in Shantaram, he was captured in Germany in 1990 and eventually extradited to Australia. On completing his prison sentence, he established a small multi-media company and is now a full-time writer. He is currently working on The Mountain Shadow, a sequel to Shantaram, being the continuing adventures of Lin, Karla and all the other characters still standing at the end of Shantaram and with a host of new characters and locations in Europe and West Asia.
