{"product_id":"shantaram-gregory-david-roberts-shantaram-1","title":"Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts (Shantaram #1)","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3\" id=\"p-rc_adaa281dc172242e-42\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"citation-126 citation-127 citation-128 citation-end-128\"\u003eIn 1978 Gregory David Roberts – a young writer and activist – committed a series of robberies while addicted to heroin, and was sentenced to nineteen years in jail. After two years, he escaped from a maximum\u003csup class=\"superscript\" data-turn-source-index=\"1\"\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"citation-126 citation-127 citation-end-127\"\u003e-security prison in broad daylight, and became Australia’s most wa\u003csup class=\"superscript\" data-turn-source-index=\"2\"\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"citation-126 citation-end-126\"\u003ented man.\u003csup class=\"superscript\" data-turn-source-index=\"3\"\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"source-inline-chip-container ng-star-inserted\"\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003eHiding in Bombay, he established a medical clinic for slum-dwellers, and worked as a counterfeiter, smuggler and gunrunner for one of the most charismatic branches of the Bombay mafia. \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"185\"\u003eShantaram\u003c\/i\u003e is based on this ten-year period of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003eThe result is an epic tale of slums and mansions, romantic love and prison torture, philosophers and assassins, mafia gang wars and Bollywood films. A gripping adventure story, \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"177\"\u003eShantaram\u003c\/i\u003e is also a superbly written meditation on good and evil and an authentic evocation of Bombay life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Story Station","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49351397572847,"sku":"SHA04860","price":84.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/6538\/6223\/files\/asdasdas_912a5657-cdde-4ca7-8e57-49267a91376b.jpg?v=1777322857","url":"https:\/\/www.thestorystation.co.za\/products\/shantaram-gregory-david-roberts-shantaram-1","provider":"The Story Station","version":"1.0","type":"link"}