Shantaram
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This book is one I'd heard a lot about. It made it (despite her protests) into the bag of a fellow student in India, and its brick-like nature prompted a colleague to ask me, "Are you buying books by the kilo now?"! My father raved about it. Yet to describe the story rather puts me off - "This Aussie guy escaped from maximum security prison, went to live in a slum in Bombay, working for the mafia and fighting in Afghanistan" - as well, that doesn't sound like my type of book.
However, it grabbed me. I managed to plough trough it in a week (and still get my work done). Lin's life is nothing short of amazing, and his reflections are honest and manage to be uplifting and realistic at the same time. Sometimes he waffles a little but the overall effect was of a book and communities that I'd lived inside - and wished for more.
This copy bought in Sukhumvit, Bangkok.
However, it grabbed me. I managed to plough trough it in a week (and still get my work done). Lin's life is nothing short of amazing, and his reflections are honest and manage to be uplifting and realistic at the same time. Sometimes he waffles a little but the overall effect was of a book and communities that I'd lived inside - and wished for more.
This copy bought in Sukhumvit, Bangkok.