Gregory David Roberts

The author of the international bestseller Shantaram takes us on a gripping personal journey of wonder and insight into science, belief, faith, and devotion. Drawing on sacred traditions, rigorous logic, and the six-year instruction of his spiritual teacher, Roberts describes the step-by-step process he followed in search of spiritual connection—a process that anyone, of any belief or none, can benefit...

Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts. In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building-society branches, credit unions, and shops he had committed while addicted to heroin. In July 1980, he escaped from Victoria's maximum-security prison in broad daylight, thereby becoming one of...