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Shantaram de Gregory David Roberts

Shantaram

Autor Gregory David Roberts
Notă:  5.00 · 3 note - 1 recenzie 
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 oct 2004

Simțim, încă de la primele pagini, o atmosferă saturată de contrastul dintre brutalitate și delicatețe, o lume unde tortura din închisori se împletește cu spiritualitatea profundă a Indiei. Shantaram nu este doar un roman de aventuri, ci o confesiune extinsă, un periplu senzorial prin măruntaiele unui Bombay care devine personaj viu. Notăm cu interes felul în care Gregory David Roberts transformă experiența personală de fugar într-o meditație despre identitate și ispășire, oferindu-ne o perspectivă viscerală asupra unei societăți ascunse, populate de cerșetori, sfinți, gangsteri și actori de la Bollywood. Subliniem dimensiunea aproape mitică a personajelor: de la ghidul Prabaker, a cărui loialitate oferă echilibru narațiunii, până la Khader Khan, un naș mafiot care funcționează ca un filosof-sfânt. Ritmul lecturii este dictat de alternanța între momente de reflecție interioară și scene de o intensitate cinematografică, fie că vorbim despre luptele de stradă sau despre agonia din mahalalele arzânde. Ca și Sacred Games de Vikram Chandra, această operă explorează complexitatea lumii interlope din Mumbai și legăturile invizibile dintre putere și trădare, dar Shantaram se distinge printr-o notă profund autobiografică și un ton mai contemplativ, axat pe transformarea spirituală a protagonistului. În contextul operei sale, acest volum pune bazele pentru The Mountain Shadow și anticipează preocupările metafizice din The Spiritual Path, confirmând că, pentru Roberts, aventura exterioară este întotdeauna un pretext pentru explorarea geografiei interioare a sufletului uman.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780312330521
ISBN-10: 0312330529
Pagini: 936
Dimensiuni: 161 x 241 x 55 mm
Greutate: 1.04 kg
Ediția:Us.
Editura: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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Recomandăm Shantaram celor care caută o lectură densă, capabilă să combine suspansul unui roman polițist cu profunzimea unei scrieri filosofice. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă onestă asupra Indiei contemporane, dincolo de clișeele turistice, și va descoperi o poveste despre puterea de a te reinventa atunci când ai pierdut totul. Este o invitație la empatie și o explorare fascinantă a limitelor rezilienței umane.

Despre autor

Gregory David Roberts s-a născut în Melbourne, Australia, și a avut un destin marcat de extreme. Condamnat la 19 ani de închisoare pentru jafuri armate, acesta a reușit o evadare spectaculoasă, petrecându-și următorii zece ani ca fugar în Bombay. Acolo a înființat o clinică gratuită pentru locuitorii din mahalale, lucrând simultan ca falsificator și soldat pentru mafia locală. După ce a fost recapturat și și-a ispășit pedeapsa, Roberts s-a dedicat scrisului, Shantaram devenind un succes internațional tradus în 44 de limbi. În prezent, autorul locuiește în Bombay și explorează teme legate de știință și credință.

Descriere scurtă

Based on his own extraordinary life, Gregory David Roberts' Shantaram is a mesmerizing novel about a man on the run who becomes entangled within the underworld of contemporary Bombay-the basis for the Apple + TV series starring Charlie Hunnam.

"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."

An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city'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.

Notă biografică

Gregory David Roberts was born in Melbourne, Australia. A gifted writer and student, he became addicted to heroin when his marriage collapsed and he lost the custody of his daughter. When he committed a series of robberies with an imitation pistol, he was described as the Gentleman Bandit. Sentenced to nineteen years in prison, he escaped and journeyed to New Zealand, Asia, Africa, and Europe. For ten of those fugitive years he lived in Bombay-where he established a free medical clinic for slum-dwellers, and worked as a counterfeiter, smuggler, gunrunner, and street soldier for a branch of the Bombay mafia. Recaptured in Germany, he served out his sentence there and in Australian prisons. Upon his release, he established a successful multimedia company, and since the international publication of Shantaram, he is a full-time writer, at home in several countries.

Descriere

Based directly upon the experiences of its author, "Shantaram" is the story of a man who escapes from a maximum security in Australia to arrive in Bombay, the crossroads of the underworld, where he works in a first-aid station and smuggles drugs and guns.

Recenzii

A literary masterpiece... at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny... it has the grit and pace of a thriller
Powerful and original... a remarkable achievement
A publishing phenomenon
Extraordinarily vivid... a gigantic, jaw-dropping, grittily authentic saga
Utterly unique, absolutely audacious and wonderfully wild, Shantaram is sure to catch even the most fantastic of imaginations off guard
[A] sprawling, intelligent novel... full of vibrant characters... the exuberance of his prose is refreshing
Vivid, entertaining... Its visceral, cinematic descriptive beauty truly impresses
Few stand out quite like Shantaram... nothing if not entertaining... Sometimes a big story is its own reward
Very good... vast of vision and breadth
It has a heartfelt, cinemascope feel... A sensational read
[A] jaw-dropping, grittily authentic saga of lives laid bare
A curious mixture of adventure story and travelogue... [a] vivid and compassionate panorama of the places and people he encounters
[An] elegantly written, page-turning blockbuster... splendidly evoking an India few outsiders know
Shantaram is a novel of the first order, a work of extraordinary art, a thing of exceptional beauty. If someone asked me what the book was about, I would have to say everything, every thing in the world. Gregory David Roberts does for Bombay what Lawrence Durrell did for Alexandria, what Melville did for the South Seas, what Thoreau did for Walden Pond: he makes it an eternal player in the literature of the world
Shantaram has provided me with the richest reading experience to date and I don't expect anybody to unseat its all-round performance for a long time. It is seductive, powerful, complex, and blessed with a perfect voice. Like a voodoo ghost snatcher, Gregory David Roberts has captured the spirits of the likes of Henri Charriere, Rohinton Mistry, Tom Wolfe, and Mario Vargas Llosa, fused them with his own unique magic, and built the most gripping monument in print... Gregory David Roberts is a suitable giant, a dazzling guru, and a genius in full
Shantaram is, quite simply, the Arabian Nights of the new century. Anyone who loves to read has been looking for this book all their reading life. Anyone who walks away from Shantaram untouched is either heartless or dead or both. I haven't had such a wonderful time in years
Shantaram is dazzling. More importantly, it offers a lesson... that those we incarcerate are human beings. They deserve to be treated with dignity. Some of them, after all, may be exceptional. Some may even possess genius
A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld

'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, forger and street soldier. He found time to learn Hindi and Marathi, fall in love, and spend time being worked over in an Indian jail. Then, in case anyone thought he was slacking, he acted in Bollywood and fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan ... Amazingly, Roberts wrote Shantaram three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions. It's a profound tribute to his willpower ... At once a high-kicking, eye-gouging adventure, a love saga and a savage yet tenderly lyrical fugitive vision' Time Out

'Extraordinarily vivid ... a gigantic, jaw-dropping, grittily authentic saga' Daily Mail

'Powerful and original ... a remarkable achievement' Sunday Telegraph

'Vivid and compassionate ... impressive' Guardian

'A publishing phenomenon' Sunday Times