Shantaram (Parts 1-2)

This artistically reimagined confession of a man who managed to climb out of the abyss and survive soared in sales rankings and won enthusiastic reviews, as well as comparisons to the books of the greatest authors of the modern era—from Melville to Hemingway. Like the writer himself, the story’s main character spent many years living on the run. After his divorce, he lost parental rights, became addicted to drugs, went on robberies, and was sentenced by an Australian court to nineteen years in prison. Escaping in his second year from a maximum-security colony, he ended up in Bombay—where he became a counterfeiter and smuggler, traded in weapons, got drawn into the wars of the Indian mafia, and met true love, only to lose it again—then find it once more…

“The one whom ‘Shantaram’ doesn’t sting to the very depths is either without a heart, dead—or both at once. I haven’t had such pleasure from reading in a long time. ‘Shantaram’ is ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ of our time. A priceless gift to all who love books.”
Jonathan Carroll

This edition includes the first two parts (chapters 01–16) of the five-part novel “Shantaram”.

. Высоцкий, translation, 2009
. Абушик, translation, 2009
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OOO “Издательская Группа „Азбука-Аттикус“”, 2009
Publishing house AZBUKA®
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