Gregory David Roberts





Gregory David Roberts

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June 01, 1952

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Грегори Дэвид Робертс

Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author, most noted for his novel Shantaram. He was a heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison and fled to India where he lived for ten years.

Roberts lived in Melbourne, Germany and France, and finally returned to Mumbai, where he set up charitable foundations to assist the city's poor with health care coverage. Roberts was reunited with his daughter.

He also wrote the original screenplay for the movie adaptation of Shantaram (2011) as well as the screenplay for the 2008 film Allegra, which is about the modern slave-trade of women.

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Average rating: 4.23 · 41,574 ratings · 5,584 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
Shantaram
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 40,955 ratings — published 2003 — 57 editions
Shantaram Part Two
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4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 542 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
Shantaram Part One
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4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 51 ratings
The Mountain Shadow
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Shantaram, 2 volume
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012
Chin Music
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007
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“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.”
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

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