Title: Shantaram
Author: Gregory David Roberts
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Year: 2003/2005
936 pages
Criminal with a heart of gold and active conscience seeks love, which he throws away, and the esteem of father figures. I didn't mind the purpleness of the prose as much as some reviewers have, and I give Roberts credit for writing this as a novel. Still, it is written in a memoir style and has a whiff of James Frey about it and would have been a tighter novel if it were half the length or less, and the narrator were sometimes clearly, badly, wrong.
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