JAKARTA REFERENCE

Here are the book of reference from a friend..Interesting brief explanation from Kit

Trying to find this book in Jakarta, but cant find it yet! :(



An Amazing Read! (Shared from Kit's blog, http://kit.posterous.com/an-amazing-read)

I recently finished Shantaram and it is one of the best books I have read in a long, long time. My friend Anisha recommended it to me and we both agree that when you finish the book, you feel like you have lost a friend.


It is a long book but well worth your time. I think it might have rotated my perspective on life just a little bit. Ya, it's THAT good.From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com:

Shantaram, a blatantly autobiographical first novel by Gregory David Roberts, an Australian author who himself fled to India after escaping from prison, sets out to tell the story of Lin's transformation from desperate, bitter man on the run to, if not a man of peace, then a man of understanding, a man at peace with his life and the mistakes he has made.


The book, told in 933 readable pages, follows him from a remote Indian village in monsoon season to the Afghan mountains in winter, but mostly it takes place in Bombay: in a slum where he founds a medical clinic, in a prison where he is beaten and tortured, in meetings of a branch of the India mafia led by Abdel Khader Khan, an Afghan who becomes a father figure and employer for the fugitive.