One of the best books I've ever read (and I've read quite a few!) Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. The way Roberts describes Indians in this book is like a series of bad caricatures - I cringed terribly.



The author's description of arriving in Mumbai is so similar to my experience - the sites and smells, staying in Colaba, the restaurants visited - it really brought back my trip to a city I loved.Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts is a huge yet hard-to-put-down novel.

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It is, however, home to many who have the same idea, hiding from their criminal pasts elsewhere. If you love reading as much as our colleagues, then your summer fun itinerary will most likely include books.



As a man on a run, he tries to make sense of his life while he travels across the spiritual city.‘Shantaram’ is about the life of an escaped Australian convict with the alias ‘Lin’ who comes to India in order to evade his torturous fate in the prison. Supposedly a true story and it dies read that way.

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Heroin addition, bank robbery, prison break, escape to India. Zumindest bis zu seinem elften Geburtstag.



Even though it was over 900 pages, I didn't want it to end.









It's wonderful! There is the over-friendly and smiling, trusting, barbaric, not very clever, poor Prabaker - (I HATED the way he wrote Prabaker's English.

APPLE BOOKS REVIEW. And that’s ok with me; except this book is clearly based heavily on the author’s life and I couldn't help asking myself where exactly in this tale is the fact and where is the fiction?

After landing in Bombay (now Mumbai), he befriends his tour guide Prabhakar and other expatriates who are involved in some minor illegal crimes in the city. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.



I have visited India many times and related to the chaos and sheer vitality of the place. It has such rich descriptions and characters that you feel you're there every step of the way. A love that won’t let go.

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Monat kostenlos. He was an escaped convict from an Australian prison and I bet his fellow prisoners and warders must have sighed with relief to no longer be victims of this self-righteous man's endless burble of cod-philosophy, 'deep' insights into other people, and general, overweening self-love. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind



And that’s ok with me; except this book is clearly based heavily on the author’s life and I couldn't help asking myself where exactly in this tale is the fact and where is the fiction? I was shocked at the violence, but stuck with it, even though I normally would avoid that kind of thing.



This is a grand, sprawling, intelligent, autobiographical novel, elegantly written and splendidly evocative of an India I would otherwise never know. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.



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Hideous purple prose, every plot twist signposted with clunking obviousness, padded out with pseudo-mystic 'philosophy', riddled with obscene poverty-licking and Orientalism. I’ve put off reviewing this book simply because no words of mine can equal this storyteller, this bard.



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by Scribe Too wordy, boring plot and characters who never got as interesting as they should have gotten. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. While they venture out to better explore Bombay and eventually other parts of the state, Lin learns the culural differences between India and his Australian upbringing.




This book is a semi-autobiographical story of a man who escapes prison in Australia and escapes to Bombay and lives there for many years.

600 pages into it, I had to set myself free by throwing it in the toilet.



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