Shantaram

by Gregory David Roberts

You’ll be all right … Don’t worry … It’s a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun …’

I’d lost Prabaker and Abdullah, my closest friends, in the same week, and with them I’d lost the mark on the psychic map that says You Are Here.

What had seemed to be smooth walls of bare, mountainous rock proved on closer inspection to be formed in undulating waves of ravines and tiered crevices.