The Mountain Shadow

Forfattere

• Gregory David Roberts

SAXO's beskrivelse

Der er gået to år siden de dramatiske begivenheder i "Shantaram" fandt sted. Så da den undslupne australske straffefange Lin vender tilbage til Bombay, har byen undergået store ændringer. Hans gamle venner fra slummen er borte og byens nye generation af mafialedere spiller efter et helt nyt regelsæt.
I "The Mountain Shadow" udfordres Lins verdenssyn af en hellig mand, der sætter al Lins viden om kærlighed og livet på prøve. Selvom byen har forandret sig til det værre og selvom Lin har mistet de to personer i sit liv, han elskede højest, kan han ikke forlade Bombay - hans kærlighed til Karla og et skæbnesvangert løfte holder ham fast.

"The Mountain Shadow" er en storslået fortælling om jagten på identitet i midten af en brutal verden.

Forlagets beskrivelse 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.

Bibliotekernes beskrivelse * A profound, unputdownable, epic thriller set in Mumbai - a standalone novel and a sequel to the international bestseller SHANTARAM