Cette saga épique retrace le parcours d'un homme évadé d'une prison australienne, perdu dans les rues vibrantes de Bombay. Le récit tisse une mosaïque captivante d'aventures, d'amitiés et de quête d'identité dans un décor exotique. Plongez dans une histoire pleine de rebondissements, où la lutte personnelle pour la survie se mêle à la compréhension des complexités de la vie indienne.
Dans les années 1980, Lin s'évade d'une prison australienne et s'envole pour Bombay. C'est alors le début d'un long parcours initiatique, au cours duquel sa vie sera bouleversée. Docteur dans un bidonville avant d'intégrer la mafia de Bombay, Lin connaîtra l'amour mais devra aussi faire face à la trahison et à la violence. Grande fresque épique, ce roman brosse le portrait d'une Inde terriblement humaine.
A profound, unputdownable, epic thriller set in Mumbai - a standalone novel and a sequel to the international bestseller SHANTARAM 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 improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything. Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set of rules. It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life. But Lin can't leave the Island City: Karla, and a fatal promise, won't let him go.