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A convict from Australia flees to India using the false name Lin and discovers a new life with a shocking spectrum of diversity as colourful, dark, enchanting and chaotic as the land itself. Gregory David Roberts’ search for meaning, philosophy and love as a fugitive being hunted for many-a-crime in this historical fiction, stimulates the demons and the angels in the minds of all readers. Summary of the book A man with a deceitful identity becomes Indian at heart as he begins his life in India, in the enigmatic world of Bombay slums. Unlike the frowns that the slums received from outside world, Lin discovers the wonderful connection that binds every man to another in the deepest of despair and hope, intense of the moments of love and hatred. Lin’s life as a normal slum dweller and his later entry to the underworld of Bombay is filled with layers of betrayal, love, danger, fear, all culminating in an eerie liberation towards the end. This book is a complex journey of a man’s passionate tale surprisingly extraordinary for a debut novel. About Gregory David Roberts Gregory, an Australian author who romanticized and loved India, chronicles a lot of his own experiences as an ex-convict. After his incredible journey to and in India, he has now set up charitable foundations in Mumbai, where he escaped to and was named a Zeitz Foundation Ambassador for Community.